Short answer: yes Things to watch out for:
1) Versions on both Windows/Linux need to be compatible. If Linux has same or later version, you are normally OK. If Linux version is older, you will have to use only Python Libraries and functions that are in the oldest version. 2) Don't use OS-specific constructs. Things like backslashes in filenames, etc. Use os.path.join, os.path.basename, etc. to work with paths. Linux has OS-specific code that handles all the cross-OS problems for you if you use these methods. Don't hard code drive letters in your code, Linux/Mac don't have drive letters. 3) Obviously you can't use Python Windows extensions, which won't port. You can't move something that is written as COM object or as a Windows service (sorry those were probably too obvious ;-). 4) If you use GUI, use something that is cross-platform (like wxWindows, TK, etc.). You can't use Windows-specific GUI calls. 5) You can be affected by word length issues if you move from 32-bit Windows to 64-bit Linux. Normally this is only only a problem if you use struct module to pack/unpack buffers or if you do bit shift operations (e.g. <<, >>). 6) Don't depend on Windows line endings in files. Linux/Mac use different ones than Windows. 7) Some Linux machine have different endian storage of bytes. If you do bit shifting or struct pack/unpack you will need to take that into account. 8) If you have OS-specific "things" in your code, put them in a function or class that can easily be rewritten for the specific OS you are porting to. Don't spread them out all through your code. It is much easier to rewrite a couple of functions/classes that are OS-specific than it is to try to find problems all over your program. Hope info helps at least a little. -Larry A.M wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am planning to develop python applications on windows and run them on > Linux. Are ActivePython scripts compatible with Linux? Is there any > guideline that explains the compatibility issues between python in different > platforms? > > > > What would be the best approach for what I am trying to do? > > > > Any help would be appreciated, > > Alan > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
