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[Everything You Need To Know]

On Monday, 18 August 2014 23:13:59 UTC+9:30, Chris Angelico  wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Everything You Need To Know
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> <eyn2k at outlook.com> wrote:
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> > You are correct in suggesting that the current course is Windows Specific, though as far as I currently understand it only effects conditional imports such as time.clock() into time.time(). Which is a great warning to add suggestions at appropriate times to deal with these.
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> Being Windows-specific isn't a problem, but it would be good to say
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> so. (And if you haven't tested out your course on Linux or Mac OS,
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> it's best to say you're Windows-only. There'll likely be little bits
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> and pieces here and there that won't work, and the only way to know is
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> to actually try things.)
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> The reason I figured you were assuming Windows is because  it's the
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> biggest platform that doesn't come with some Python already installed
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> or easily obtainable. With most Linux distributions, Python either
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> comes as part of the base system, or is conveniently installed with
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> apt-get, yum, pacman, or whatever the standard installer is - but it
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> might be not the latest (for instance, the current Debian stable ships
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> with Python 3.2, although the next Debian release will have either 3.4
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> or 3.5, depending on whether the latter gets ready in time for
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> Jessie's feature freeze). So if you target Linux, you'll probably want
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> to be very clear about what versions of Python you support. I would
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> advise going for 3.3+ or 3.4+ (if you haven't tested on 3.3, say
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> 3.4+). On Windows, you can start by walking people through the
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> installation, and then they'll get the latest as of their
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> installation.
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> ChrisA

Thank you very much ChrisA, your post has been very enlightening and helpful. I will try to transfer this knowledge on and I will address platform issues in 0.7, once I have done addressing programming paradigms adequately (writing the quick tutorial atm) with your permission, I will put a small note thanking you or this forum for your help.

I was previously made aware of Linux having a base Python, though until you pointed it out, the limitations did not occur to me.

Have a great week, Thank you