On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Python_Junkie <software.buy.des...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am I wrong in the assumption that there are less python packages > available for non windows OS >
I have no explicit 'proof' of this, but I am fairly sure that the opposite is true - there will be more packages available for non windows OS. The majority of Python work ISTM happens on *NIX variants like Linux, OS X and BSD, so it would be logical to assume that the majority of packages work on non windows OS. Having said that, a lot of python packages are 'pure python', and so only rely on a conforming python interpreter. All of those packages will work the same on windows, Linux, BeOS... Aaah, I see where you are getting this from - when looking at a project's available downloads, like py-odbc, there will be masses of different compiled variants for windows. This is because windows users often fail to have an appropriate development environment in which to compile the necessary parts, which all other OS will have readily available, and hence most windows python users are looking for a binary package compiled for their version of python. Cheers Tom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
