Peter wrote: > > This post seeks advice on whether python would be appropriate for a task, > or whether you can suggest another approach. > > The project is to transcribe historical records such as schools > admissions, ship passenger lists, birth/death/marriages, etc for genealogy > studies. What we need is a simple software tool that will give the user a > form set out like the page being transcribed, do some simple validation > and put the > data in a file (can be fixed field length plain text). Data files from > volunteers will be compiled into a master database. > > This software tool needs to work on a variety of different computers; > Win95, Win98, WinXP, Mac, Linux. > > So, would python be a good choice for this, and how should I go about it? > I'm not a programmer and have only done a few little python scripts that > run from the command line.
Make it a webapp. That will guarantee to make it runnable on the list of OSses you gave. Use Django/TurboGears/ZOPE for the application itself- whichever suits you best. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list