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Joined: 05/10/2019
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| Posted: 08:06am 25 Jul 2026 |
I've used Python just a little and I rather like it. I thought of it as a sort of turbo-charged BASIC with a different syntax.
My problem here is that there is Python and Python.
Raspberry Pi officially support Micropython directly on the Pico. They have educational material for it and it's arguably the best platform for that purpose, even if it doesn't support displays, sound etc..
My last skirmish was with Circuit Python on a Pico, which I think is a good combination and doesn't involve any special hardware unless you want to add the Adafruit modules to it (for which it has generally good support). For handling IO it's very nice.
I've also played with Python2 and Python3 under Linux very occasionally, but not a lot.
I'm a bit loath to splash out what, for me, is quite a bit of money on pre-built hardware to run yet another version of Python. Yes, it's turning out to be a really capable platform but for me, as a hardware person, I can't see it worth pursuing. It's likely to be one of those things that ends up either shoved in a drawer or spends its days running someone else's code.