On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 00:10 -0600, Luke Paireepinart wrote: > Although I'm prettty sure most modern linux distros come with Python > already installed, so you don't need to be concerned about those linux > folk.
I think Windows is the only major OS distribution that still omits Python. > Except, I find that it's more trouble for linuxers to get packages > for > their python scripts, because they have to make-install etc. whereas > windows people have a nice friendly, > fuzzy little GUI installer for the majority of python packages. The belief that all Linux software must be compiled and installed manually is a common misconception. The major Linux distributions all have servers with thousands of packages that install easily, either from a command line or a GUI interface. For my Fedora laptop: yum install python-kid checks for any dependencies (e.g. python-elementtree) and installs all needed packages. (There is no need for the package to have been written in Python. I just used a Python example since this is a Python list.) Most Linux packages have available source code and you *can* install from source, but that is not forced on you. If a Python package is not available through yum, installation from the Cheese Shop is still quite simple, and certainly no more difficult than on Windows. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor