Until recently, however, it simply wasn’t a viable choice in the embedded space. That’s begun to change with projects like CircuitPython, and now it’s available on the Teensy 4.0!

Circuit Python is based on the Open Source MicroPython, a Python 3 interpreter that implements a subset of the Python language on microcontrollers and other constrained environments.

Python programming: Microsoft's latest beginners' course looks at developing for NASA projects Microsoft and NASA offer some ideas about how you could apply Python for space exploration.