Hi

I am writing a little program in python and would like to make sure it runs on all OSes (for the start at least Windows and Linux).

Are there any guides for this, what to pay attention to?
I am using Tkinter for the GUI, which looks butt ugly on Linux (*grin*), but is a point to start at and it is portable and simple.

Path names are obviously an issue. Great that you can at least use / on all OSes, even on Windows. Now is there a surefire way to find out on which OS type you are running to make the program decide which path names to use?

Cheers

Markus

P.S. As I understand, Tkinter on Linux uses Tk or Tc, some old archaic GUI that is independent of KDE or Gnome. Is there any way to map these GUIs to QT or GTK so it does not look so hideous?

Why would you even care - what about the macs, or some new OS ???. Use something agnostic like os.path

Thanx for the pointer.

Well, the future is multi platform, a program should run on any OS, not discriminating anyone. (because the OS will lose more and more importance. I hate having to setup a Windows, pay license for it just to run some application that could also easily run on a Ubuntu. Why not develop from the very start to accommodate that?
I am for example a passionate gamer and am so far dependent on Windows for quality games. I wished all these games would be available for Linux too, so I could send my XP machine to hell, but unfortunately these companies develop Windows centric and not multi platform and with such a limited architecture, porting becomes very hard.

So far I am developing this program for myself, it has no wider audience and pragmatically, I must limit myself to these two platforms.

When I find that other users will be interested, more platforms can of course be integrated easily. It surely will license it under the GPL.

Markus

In which case have a look at the os module - os.name