The port, named Pippy, formed by appending the Python filename suffix ".PY" to the acronym PIP (Python In Palm), will reduce the effort of porting Python applications to small device platforms. Porting Python to the Palm allows developers to use a programming language and environment that was previously available only on much larger platforms. The Python Virtual Machine and libraries can occupy as little as 191 KB of storage memory and will execute in less than 64 KB of heap space.