[Joe Ross]

The first thing you would have to do is port Python to vxworks on a power pc. A quick Google search shows several people asking about it, and there was even a patch set for a 10 year old version of python to a 10 year old version of vxworks, but that likely isn't good anymore, not to mention the link is broken. I didn't see anything from the last 5 years.

Once you've done that, they you can start on the things that Eric pointed out.

If the main reason you were looking at python is because you wanted a text based language, C++ or Java would sure be a lot simpler.