Dealing with pywin32 on Linux

Benedict Verheyen benedict.verheyen at gmail.com
Wed Dec 15 08:51:38 EST 2010


On 15/12/2010 14:37, Tim Golden wrote:

> Well I'm not sure how far something like WINE would take you,
> but I suggest that trying to develop Windows-specific code in
> a Linux Dev environment is creating a rod for your own back.
> 
> For the specific case you mention, you should be able to switch,
> lock, stock & barrel to python-ldap or other LDAP modules. But
> that means a fairly major rewrite, plus that's only one issue.
> None of the Windows-specific stuff will work: registry, win32api
> calls, whatever you're pulling out of the pywin32 packages.
> 
> TJG

Hi,

thanks for your answer.
For the moment, i only need to connect to AD to authenticate.
But you raise a good point that if I need more functionality, I will encounter problems.

Regards,
Benedict




More information about the Python-list mailing list