[Tutor] python on ipad

[James Griffin]

[--------- Sun 10.Mar'13 at 16:42:59 -0500  Benjamin Fishbein :---------]

> Hello. I wrote some python programs for my small business that I run on my computer...macbook air. I'm planning to backpack around Mexico and perhaps south america. I'll still be working though. Basically my computer does all the work, I just need to have internet connections and run the programs, and periodically click here and there.
> I don't want to take my macbook with me because I'd have anxiety that it'd get stolen and I wouldn't have any fun.
> So I'm debating if I should get a cheap computer for a couple hundred bucks and run the python scripts on it. I think this is possible because I hear the code is the same whether it's mac or PC or whatever.
> Or I might take my ipad with me. Or just run it on my iphone.
> Do you know if it's possible to run python scripts on a ipad/iphone, and if so how to do it?
> Thanks,
> Ben

An iPad will be far more atttractive to a thief than a laptop, Mac or otherwise. Just get a cheap laptop and put linux on it. You can use your python programs on that easily enough.