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Chris Garland

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Feb 12, 2003, 3:20:38 PM2/12/03
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Our company is thinking of making the grand leap from Win95 (yes
really... 95) to Win2000. I've written some Python that automates
some of our documentation. The program will go into Source Safe pull
files out into a directory, gather some data on those files and write
the results into a table in Word97. I understand I may have some
Python tweaking to do if the company decides to move to a newer
version of Word but has anyone experienced issues with purely OS
migration?
Thanks

Hutchins, Mike

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Feb 12, 2003, 3:29:49 PM2/12/03
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I am currently running python on win2k and win2k3 rc2 just fine.

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Manuel Garcia

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Feb 12, 2003, 4:51:59 PM2/12/03
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On 12 Feb 2003 12:20:38 -0800, chrisga...@hotmail.com (Chris
Garland) wrote:

When it comes to Python (and almost everything else), there are no
downsides from moving from Win95/98 to Win2000. Here at work, I got
rid of the last Win98 machine a few months ago. Good riddance.

For example, since Win2000 has an Environment Variables tool (Control
Panel | System | Advanced Tab), so PYTHONPATH is a trivial to set and
maintain, even for multiple users. No more games with BAT files.

Manuel

Mark Hammond

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Feb 12, 2003, 4:56:32 PM2/12/03
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Python works fine on Win2k - however, sometimes Windows doesn't <wink>.
There are subtle differences between the platform, and in general,
Python does nothing to hide that. However, in general, stuff will work
fine on both platforms - particularly, moving from 9x->NT will cause
less surprises than moving from NT->9x.

I'm very happy XP is now the consumer OS - getting 9x off the planet is
a good thing.

Mark.

news

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Feb 14, 2003, 8:56:40 AM2/14/03
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At work we had (until recently) one computer running 95 and another running
XP plus my home computer runs 2000 and Linux.

I have python scripts which ran on all four no problem - I doubt you'll have
any difficulties with migration.

Mig


news

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Feb 14, 2003, 9:00:31 AM2/14/03
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"news" <m...@mig.com> wrote in message
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I forgot to mention - this is just on more reason why I think Python is
really cool!


Chris Garland

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Feb 14, 2003, 2:11:55 PM2/14/03
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> > At work we had (until recently) one computer running 95 and another
> running
> > XP plus my home computer runs 2000 and Linux.
> >
> > I have python scripts which ran on all four no problem - I doubt you'll
> have
> > any difficulties with migration.
> >
> > Mig

Thanks for the feedback people, this is good info to show the IT guys.

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