[Tutor] python on ipad

[Prasad, Ramit]

James Griffin wrote:
> [--------- 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.

On the flip side, iPads are easier to carry and secure (especially for 
international customs/security). I can walk around with it easily, so am unlikely
to leave it anywhere to get stolen. Many laptops are cheaper than new iPads and 
have more generic utility, but also can be harder to charge  and the batteries 
don't always last as long. A USB port is probably pretty easy to find, not sure
if you need an voltage/plug transformer where the OP is going. I would 
probably go cheap laptop if the OP can afford it, but then I think I would have 
an eye on it for a headless server, htpc or a million other uses for a spare 
laptop after the trip (if I did not sell it).


Ramit


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