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I have some Python scripts in Linux. How can I make those scripts so that windows user can use and execute them?

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closed as off topic by Michael Mrozek♦ Mar 25 '13 at 20:16

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Python runs on Windows just like on Linux; you don't have to do anything. Are you asking how to package Python scripts as Windows executables? That's probably an SO question –  Michael Mrozek♦ Dec 14 '10 at 6:20

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Hmm, are they not executable at the current moment? Are there any errors? What's wrong?

First of all: does Windows even have Python installed? Open up a Command Prompt and type in python. If you get into a Python interpreter shell, you do have it.

Next, to run the files, you have to cd into their directory and just run python file.py.

If you were to give more details, maybe I could help a bit more?

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It depends... How that Python script was written. At some of the cases You can avoid the incompatibility using "os.*" methods and constants. Most of those are rewritten to some different environments.

Those handy methods includes most of these cases:

  • file and directory structure management
  • processes management
  • environment variables management
  • file handlers management
  • etc...
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