(gulp) newbie question - portablity of python

[Benjamin Schollnick]

On Sun, 14 May 3900 18:42:51, "Keygrass" <nospam at sorry.com> wrote:

> The Python implementation is portable: it runs on many brands of UNIX, on
> Windows, DOS, OS/2, Mac, Amiga... If your favorite system isn't listed here,
> it may still be supported, if there's a C compiler for it. Ask around on
> comp.lang.python -- or just try compiling Python yourself.

> So ... my question is this: Is this really too good to be true?  What I want
> to do it write the program on my  Win98se (at home) and then use that .exe
> or .bat file (or whatever extension it is) at work which uses unix.

No, it's quite true.

There are a few small differences, platform to platform, for example
Windows doesn't support symbolic links, so the routines that assist
with symbolic links under *nix either return a "false" value or are 
not
implemented under a windows model.

But I've taken quite a few programs from my Windows development
box, and by just copying the source to the Macintosh, gotten it to 
work
fine.  

There are subtle differences across the supported platforms, but
they are usually in "OS specific" modules (i.e. Mac, Win32, POSIX, 
etc)
which you specifically need to import to use.  So if you specifically
import those modules, you should already know that you will need
to add some "logic" to your program to support different os's.

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