Bob Axtell wrote:
> I need to make a few programs that will stand alone and run under
> Windoze 2K/XP and can be made into a Linux version with minimal
> or NO expense to my client..

Use Python 2.5, or Python2.4 if you want to support older versions. 
Pretty much every Linux distro will include at least Python2.4. For 
Windows, use py2exe.

> It has to have the ability to talk to PC Serial ports  and VCP (emulated
> serial ports, like under USB<>RS232 converters).

Add on pyserial, and pywin32 for the Windows versions. Once you use 
py2exe, it all gets packed up into a small self-contained directory with 
a .exe to run the program.

> I have been told that Python 2.51 works great like this. Is it true? Anybody
> using it?

I've done it for a bootloader application for a project. I used 2.4, 
mainly because I didn't feel like upgrading my own system to 2.5. Of 
course, it runs under 2.5 as well, it's just that I had to code around 
some features of 2.5 that I didn't get to use use. It worked well.


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