{"id":5412,"date":"2013-08-01T15:27:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T15:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=5412"},"modified":"2013-08-01T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T15:27:24","slug":"pypy-releases-two-new-versions-for-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5412","title":{"rendered":"PyPy releases two new versions for #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pypy_small1281.png' alt='PyPy Status Blog: PyPy 2.1 - Considered ARMful' \/><\/p>\n<p>PyPy, the Python interpreter that&#8217;s gaining a lot of support due to it&#8217;s blessing from the Foundation, has just announced two releases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/morepypy.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/08\/pypy-21-considered-armful.html\">PyPy 2.1<\/a> (targeting version 2.7.3 of Python) is the first release for ARM processors in the JIT.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/morepypy.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/07\/pypy3-21-beta-1.html\">PyPy3 2.1<\/a> (which targets Python 3 version 3.2.3).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PyPy is definitely the future of Python on the Pi, due to all the optimisation that is promised, so I urge you to take a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PyPy, the Python interpreter that&#8217;s gaining a lot of support due to it&#8217;s blessing from the Foundation, has just announced two releases: PyPy 2.1 (targeting version 2.7.3 of Python) is the first release for ARM processors in the JIT. 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