A tool for Python - request for some advice

[Terry Hancock]

On Friday 24 June 2005 04:04 am, TPJ wrote:
> > If your target platform is Linux, indications are that python is as
> > portable as bash.
> 
> I've thought about it for a few days and I disagree with you. Python
> isn't as portable as bash because of one reason. The problem is that
> development of Python is much more dynamic than development of bash. If
> I wrote my script in Python it would be possible that this script
> wouldn't run on the same distro with _different_ version of Python.
> 
> (This is problem because someone has sugested that he'd like to run
> this script on RH 9. So older distros must be considered as well as
> newer.)

If you write your scripts to work with Python 2.1,  they will work on
practically any Linux distribution that is still in wide use on desktops
and servers.  You might get into trouble on embedded systems or
"rescue disk" Linuxes (i.e. you might have to go back to 1.5).

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Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com )
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