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Could I write an OS using python? I don't know if that's possible, but if it is, i'd like to know, because is the language that i know, and I wouldn't like to have to learn C or C++ (I've got enough things in my mind, I can't put another programming language there)

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Python is a scripting language, it requires another program to interpert it and cannot be run directly as a program, and thus, impossible to write an OS with. Unless one already exists, you could write a compiler for python to convert it into a binary, but even then I doubt you could use it to write an OS as I don't think it has any low level functionality, though I may be wrong, as I rarely use python.

If you are going to write an OS, a lot of knowledge in c or c++ and assembly is required.