In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In our company we are looking for one language to be used as default > language. So far Python looks like a good choice (slacking behind > Java). A few requirements that the language should be able cope with > are: > > * Database access to Sybase. > This seems to be available for python, but the windows-binaries for > the library > are not available. Self-Compiling them proved to be non-trivial (As > always > on windows). > * Easy GUI creation. > Solved using PyQt. > * Cross Platform (Linux + Windows). > Again, PyQt, solves this > * Easy deployment. > Solved using py2exe + innosetup How do you deploy python on linux? The only solution I know of is pyinstaller and I never could get it to work for me on linux (I never bothered to try on Windows since I already had py2exe doing what I needed). In my opinion this is one of Python's few weaknesses compared to Java. Others that come to mind are: - Lack of a built-in networking library that works with GUI toolkits (use Twisted Framework and hope it continues to be supported) - Lack of a good built-in GUI toolkit (but there are several good alternatives including Qt) > * Charting (Histograms, Line charts, bar charts, pie charts, ...) > I am currently looking into PyQwt, which looks promising. HippoDraw is very good. I am not familiar with PyQwt so I cannot compare them. -- Russell -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
