metaperl wrote: > The reason I'm going with vmware is because I'm afraid that I will need > to compile a C portiion of a Python module and that will not be a > pretty picture under Windows... true or false? > Provided you have the correct compilers installed it is no harder compiling C extensions under Windows than under Linux. The problem is getting the correct toolchain installed. You could try the instructions in section A of http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyrexOnWindows
You only need to follow section B of that document if you want to use Pyrex, but if you are planning on writing C extensions I strongly recommend using Pyrex. Also, these days, you can use ctypes for many cases where you used to have to compile a C extension. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
