tinypy

[sc0ttman]

Tinypy is available on this forum somewhere, and I installed it, but not sure how to use it.

Everytime I type 'tinypy' in the terminal, I get this:

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Exception:
tp_get: KeyError: 0

If I do 'tinypy --help', I get this:

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Exception:
tp_load(--help)

I have installed the full package as offered by Barry K, in Puplite 5.0.

Any ideas? I don't need to be an expert, just need a little help to make it do something different!

[technosaurus]

It sounds like it may be looking for .py files in some directory. For more info try running
strings /pathto/tinypy

[sc0ttman]

It sounds like it may be looking for .py files in some directory. For more info try running
strings /pathto/tinypy

I get a long list of incomprehensible garbage, lots of special characters in there.... Only 1 line had any info I could understand (if at all), and it says my binary is UPX'd... Would it make a difference? I guess I need one not UPX'd for 'strings' to work... Right?

This is part of what I get:

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UPX!
T$ éî
Ûsïu	
Ûsä1É
ðÿtv
Éu A
Ûsïu	
GIu÷é^ÿÿÿ

[rjbrewer]

Type tinypy up in the "search" box.

The thread by Barry has a .pet.

[sc0ttman]

Type tinypy up in the "search" box.

The thread by Barry has a .pet.

That's what I have.. But never mind all, it seems it will only accept files, not commands... it prints the help doc example fine (just a hello world .py).. so must be working.. in part at least..

I did this

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cd /usr/share/dos/tinypy
tinypy hello.py

and it echoed "Hello World" fine...

[amigo]

You can use upx to decompress the binary and may get more info from it with strings.

[technosaurus]

Thanks amigo, mi amigo.
What I was looking to see, was a file or directory name. Sometimes a directory path is hard- coded at compile time.

[sc0ttman]

Thanks amigo, mi amigo.
What I was looking to see, was a file or directory name. Sometimes a directory path is hard- coded at compile time.

aha... no paths in there, upx'd or not... I guess it just takes files.... And only a limited set of functions at that...

[Lobster]

limited set of functions

Part of Python is having access to a great many functions.
When this is lost, unless you are very experienced with Python,
you almost immediately have difficulties. I always found tinypy
ran only the most basic code. Even trying to use tutorial examples,
it failed.

You probably need the full Python version . . .
Genie which is Python like is in the dev-x
and may be of interest to some Python users
http://bkhome.org/genie/index.html

[big_bass]

Hey sc0ttman
take a look here for some more tips

http://code.google.com/p/tinypy/wiki/Index?tm=6

source code -- and anything readable
http://code.google.com/p/tinypy/downloads/list

looks like it got forked
https://github.com/HarryR/tinypy-panda

The current maintainer seems to be nowhere to be found


Harry Roberts

I forked it on github for some changes I've had sitting around for a while:
https://github.com/HarryR/tinypy-panda

It'd be nice to get some more ongoing development going.

Joe

[amigo]

I also found references to tinypyc(++), but this seems to be the original work of the author who later settled on the name 'tinypy'. While looking around I saw 'pyvm' which is something similar.

It looks like pymite might be more interesting -it's still being developed and can run interactively.

[sc0ttman]

Thanks for the info guys... I'll have a look.. I only really need it for making some tiny simple python scripts for testing, I had the list of stuff that tinypy does NOT support, but it mean nearly nothing to me anyway...

My bro pointed me at pyvm a while back, which does indeed look to be half-way between python and tinpy (but still more on the side of tinypy)..