Python

why Python?

• because writing is C sucks
• your time is valuable
• once a python zealot, always a python zealot.

Compiling python from source

Supposedly there are patches that will allow you cross compile python. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it to work. The problem is that the Python build system uses the binary it generates to finish the build process - meaning that in a cross compiling situation you have to build an arm binary *and* a localhost binary (i686-linux-gnu or whatever).