You can bundle busybox with opkg and use that to install python 2.7 and pip. I tried it out myself (using progrium/busybox [1] as a base) and the image comes to

You can bundle busybox with opkg and use that to install python 2.7 and pip. I tried it out myself (using progrium/busybox [1] as a base) and the image comes to 27mb, not bad. [1]: https://github.com/progrium/busybox https://github.com/progrium/busybox