Create Web app on Win and run on Win or Mac

[Mark Lawrence]

On 02/06/2015 06:51, Bret Edwards via Python-list wrote:
> I took a look at Ren'Py as suggested by a reply to my previous post
> entitled "Create on Win and run on Win or Mac." Thanks for your
> suggestion. Ren'Py looks pretty amazing!
>
> Not sure that is a good route since my primary reason for this endeavor
> is learning Python scripting (secondarily to create the game) and Ren'Py
> uses it's own scripting language.
> Also not sure that Ren'Py supports Win 64-bit machines.
>
> Now I am switching course slightly and would like to write a Python
> based web app on a Windows machine, have it run locally and display the
> app in the browser. The finished product
> would be run on other Windows machines (of varying Windows OS versions)
> and also on Mac machines (of varying Mac OS versions.) The program would
> present a browser based GUI that the
> user would interact with (keying in integer data and clicking buttons)
> and would only have simple computations behind the scenes.
>
> I would like to only do the creation work once and do it on a Windows
> machine (I do not have access to a Mac.) Then be able to run on both
> other Win machines and Mac machines with
> only doing a simple (or not any) installation and without requiring an
> existing Python installation. Also, I do not want the user to need to
> remain connected to the I-net to use the
> app. If they need to connect to the I-net initially to download it that
> would be OK, as long as they could disconnect immediately afterwards and
> still use the app.
>
> I am sure that I could do something in JavaScript and/or AngularJS,
> maybe a single page app, but I want to do it in Python since that is
> what I am trying to learn. It would be OK if
> it had a small amount of JavaScript, but most of it needs to Python.
>
> Is this possible? If so, what tools do I use? Can I still use Tkinter
> for a web app? Do I need to do (use) anything to create cross platform
> executables or would running in a
> browser make that step not required?
>
> Sorry for the newbie question, but I am obviously looking for a light
> switch.
>
> Thanks,
> Bret
>

https://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks is hopefully the correct 
voltage and frequency :)

I'll hazard a guess that your best bet for starters is the section 
"Popular Non Full-Stack Frameworks".

-- 
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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence