On Sep 20, 12:46 pm, Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollybox.de> wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2010, it occurred to Default User to exclaim: > > > > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 14:31, J.O. Aho <u...@example.net> wrote: > > > Kev Dwyer wrote: > > > > if you have C-extensions in > > > > your code you'll need to compile them over Windows. If you want to > > > > program against the Windows API you'll need access to a Windows box. > > > > You can always cross compile, not only over OS but even CPU architecture, > > > but > > > of course testing will be more difficult, on x86 based Linux you can use > > > wine > > > or similar to test, but can give you some differences to run on a native > > > or virtualized instance. > > > < sigh > . . . > > > Well, that's about what I expected, unfortunately. But thanks for the > > honest replies. > > > [OT] > > So what's the alternative -- use the end user's browser as an interpreter > > for JavaScript or HTML5? > > [/OT] > > Umn, what? > > Python makes it rather easy to write portable code. But you still need to test > it properly on all platforms you want to support, because maybe there's some > platform-specific glitch you weren't aware of.
My guess is, if the application the person is writing uses basic features of Python and is more like a utility that one runs from the command line, there will not be that many concerns--maybe none. He might get lucky and it will just work on Windows. But if it is a GUI app and he uses, say, wxPython, I know there can be fairly significant differences in appearance between the two platforms, sometimes deal- breakingly so (but definitely able to be worked around). A lot depends on how complex/fancy the GUI is. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
