Can I set up a developers environment and make an exe in wind ows?

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	henry at zipcon.com [SMTP:henry at zipcon.com]
> Currently I use C++ to write windows programs, but I was thinking that
> I could save time by using python.  Is this possible and is it worth
> it?
 
Absolutely. For an idea of the productivity boost that you might hope to
experience, see Lutz Prechelt's paper "An empirical comparison of C, C++,
Java, Perl, Python, Rexx, and Tcl for a search/string-processing program "
here - <http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~prechelt/Biblio/#jccpprtTR>.

For a good tutorial for an experienced programmer such as yourself, try
'Dive into Python at <http://diveintopython.org/>, or the Python Tutorial at
<http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html>.

Python itself can be found at the Python website - <http://www.python.org>,
but you might prefer the ActiveState distribution -
<http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePython/>. It comes with a
nice Windows IDE, and the Python Windows extensions.

To turn Python scripts into exe files, I use py2exe -
<http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/>.

HTH

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk




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