[newbie]How to install python under DOS and is there any Wxpython can be installed under dos?

Jeff Shannon jeff at ccvcorp.com
Wed Feb 16 13:07:11 EST 2005


john san wrote:

> Just want to show "windows" under dos without MsWindows. Also find some
> difficulty to simply install WxPython under directory(DOS) and then run,
> which is very good thing if it is just like Java.

I don't think you'll have any luck finding wxPython for DOS.  A bit of 
a looksee around the wxWidgets website (wxPython is a wrapper for 
wxWidgets) mentions being available for Win3.1 and up, as well as 
various levels of *nix installs (wxGTK, wxMotif, wxX11), but no 
mention of DOS.  I suppose that a very ambitious person could perhaps 
get the wxUniversal port to run on DOS, but I presume that this would 
be far from trivial.

On the other hand, you probably could find and/or create some sort of 
basic text-only windowing library.  It won't be wxPython, nor anything 
even close to that level of sophistication, but that's what happens 
when you insist on using an OS that's been obsolete for a decade or 
more. ;)

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International




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