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| author | Damien George | 2017-06-26 15:33:43 +1000 |
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| committer | Damien George | 2017-06-26 15:33:43 +1000 |
| commit | 02e93374947feb5ac6b7aacd3187f01bf861f7e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 223ced84aadd4feb7357aae9138158859a83816b | |
| parent | 7a4694fc4ead22a225e53dca8228c107ad7314fa (diff) | |
README: Improve description of precompiled bytecode; mention mpy-cross.
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ Builtin modules include `sys`, `time`, and `struct`, etc. Select ports have support for `_thread` module (multithreading). Note that only a subset of Python 3 functionality is implemented for the data types and modules. -MicroPython can execute scripts in source form or precompiled to bytecode, -either from on-device filesystem or "frozen" into MicroPython executable. +MicroPython can execute scripts in textual source form or from precompiled +bytecode, in both cases either from an on-device filesystem or "frozen" into +the MicroPython executable. See the repository http://github.com/micropython/pyboard for the MicroPython board (PyBoard), the officially supported reference electronic circuit board. @@ -31,6 +32,8 @@ board (PyBoard), the officially supported reference electronic circuit board. Major components in this repository: - py/ -- the core Python implementation, including compiler, runtime, and core library. +- mpy-cross/ -- the MicroPython cross-compiler which is used to turn scripts + into precompiled bytecode. - unix/ -- a version of MicroPython that runs on Unix. - stmhal/ -- a version of MicroPython that runs on the PyBoard and similar STM32 boards (using ST's Cube HAL drivers). |