[Tutor] Beginner @ python

[Alexandre Ratti]

Hello Tony,


Anthony Huddleston wrote:
> I started learning Python just the other day, mostly because my nephew 
> (11yrs old) wants to learn to be a programmer. I like the language and 
> the way it flows, but so far I haven't seen anything, that I'm aware of, 
> that was written for Windows in Python 

Actually, Python scripts are cross-platform. I.e. you can run them on 
Windows, Linux, and many other systems.

> (i.e. I haven't seen any 
> executable Windows programs *.exe). Is that because people "port" 
> programs over to the Microsoft OS or does Python always need to have the 
> interpreter installed on the machine it's on?

Yes, people usually need to have the interpreter installed on their 
computer to run Python scripts.

You can also freeze a script and its runtime files into a exe file. See 
the "py2exe" tool for instance:

http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/


Cheers.

Alexandre