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Python being too slow for tcp/ip sounds silly. Afaik the c64 can run a webserver. At what... 4mhz? Less? I think you could probably emulate the c64 tcp/ip stack in python in realtime+ (or -...) on a multighz cpu...

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1 MHz, and while I only implemented UDP in my stack (https://github.com/oliverschmidt/ip65), Jonno Downes took over and added TCP later. There's also Adam Dunkels uIP and Doc Bacardi's HTTP-Load.

So yes, if a C64 can handle it Python should have plenty of power.

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