Thread: RobotPy: Python for FRC
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Peter Johnson Peter Johnson is offline
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Re: RobotPy: Python for FRC
I've implemented dynamic loading of C modules. The next release of RobotPy will break out many of the C modules into separate loadable object files, the same way that normal Python does. These separate .out files are located in /lib/python3.1/dyn-load on the robot, so they won't clutter up the /ni-rt/system directory.

This should also make distributing other modules (e.g. NumPy) easier, as they can be distributed as separate .zip packages without having to integrate them into the RobotPy executable.

I'm also going to make the wpilib module dynamically loaded. This will make it easier to test with different/beta/custom versions of WPILib. This reduces the size of the basic Python executable down to ~3.5M; the wpilib module is ~5M!
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Last edited by Peter Johnson : 28-10-2010 at 04:55. Reason: wpilib will be dynamically loaded
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