On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:52:57PM +0100, Christoph Basedau wrote: > > - Is there a way to make *.py-Files executables in an > Win98-Environment (like *.bat or *.com).
You can't produce a truely self contained exectuable, but you can produce a package that changes your file to an EXE and wraps the python interpretor into a DLL file. It can make distribution easier since end users don't need Python installed that way. Check out http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ for info. Gordon McMillan's installer (http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/install1.html) is another possible solution. > > - is there somethin like a .profile-file(unix) for windows > that loads all default modules/options when running a py- > script, maybe a bat/ini file? You can start a python script from a batch file that calls the interpretor. This is one way to get around the fact that Windows has nothing like "#!/usr/local/bin/python" at the top of the python script and no way to make a python script directly executable. Also, variables that would be set in .profile in UNIX should probably be set in autoexec.bat in Windows 98. > > - What is python best in? I mean, what do you use it for: > shell scripts, building guis, something else? The real answer to this question is "Python is best for whatever you want to use it for." Seriously, Python is so flexible that it has been used in just about every problem domain you can think of. CGI scripts, database programming, GUI frontends to databases, standalone GUI applications, science and engineering, image processing (with the Python Imaging Library). But if you want to know what I use Python for mostly? I use it mostly for rapid development of scientific applications. If you write your code in modules, you can later replace bottleneck ones with modules written in C or C++. Since Python accesses native Python modules and C and C++ modules the same way, the C and C++ modules can basically be drop in replacements. The only noticable change is an increase in speed. Many of the applications I write have GUI front ends, either using Tkinter or WxPython. > > - what is the best way to get an overwiew on what python > is, what the modules do. One way is with the command: print modulename.__doc__ This will give you a basic overview of what the module does. Note that the module must be imported for this to work. > > hello = "This is a rather long string containing\n\ > several lines of text just as you would do in C.\n\ > Note that whitespace at the beginning of the line is\ > significant." > > print hello This should work, and does work on my system. The only advice I can give you here is to make sure you have typed it exact. Variable names are case sensitive and such. Also, make sure that the statements start on the first column. Python used indentation delimitting code blocks, so if your code starts in the wrong column, it will cause an error. (The second, third, and fourth lines of the hello statement don't have to though because they are part of the same statement). --- "The fingerprint of God is often a pawprint" - Susan Chernak McElroy _______________________________________________ ActivePython mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs Other options: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/ActivePython
