has anybody made a python interpreter yet?

[XPGeek]

Im wondering if anybody has made a python interpreter for rockbox yet, cause i would like to run python scripts on my Sansa Clip v2. And if rockbox has a lua interpreter doesnt that mean that somebody could make a python one?

[wodz]

Nobody did this. In theory this should be possible but lua is lightweight compared to python and still pretty slow on rb devices.

[XPGeek]

Ok. just wondering, cause it would be cool to run python on a mp3 player, who knows, somebody might make a python interpreter for rockbox with a rockbox flavor of tkinter for gui.

[XPGeek]

...or make a patch for the lua interpreter so it can run python code, but you would have to make something lika python mode, cause it could have errors otherwise.

[Echo]

I had some experience with cross-compiling python and python packages. They all ended very badly. It is possible to do but very hard. Another thing to consider is that python has a very high memory consumption, something you don't want in low-memory MP3-players.
That being said - If anyone managed to do this, I'll be extremely impressed, althow I don't see why this is necessary, except for the coolnes factor of course

[phr]

I think this is doable on multimedia players.  32-bit x86 Linux python (just the interactive interpreter you run from the shell prompt) has about 8MB virtual memory footprint and 4MB resident.  The embedded version would presumably be smaller (ISTR the figure 2MB or so) but then you'd want some space for libraries and user scripts.