Dealing with pywin32 on Linux

[Tim Golden]

On 15/12/2010 12:58, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> I'm moving my development environment (python, Django, virtualenv) from Windows
> to Linux (Debian more specific). However, on one app (uses Django), i have a log on
> module that uses AD to authenticate users.
> It's based on the active_directory wrapper of Tim Golden.
> That needs the win32 module but installation of pywin32 fails on importing:
>
> import _winreg
> ImportError: No module named _winreg
>
> Kind of logical in hindsight :)
>
> However, this makes programming and testing under Linux a bit of a pain if you're
> dealing with Windows specific stuff.
> What is the correct way to proceed (i want to keep my development environment in Linux)?
>
> I could adjust my software modules to use the Linux counterparts of the AD functions
> that i have to authenticate.
> Or is there another way to deal with this?

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