Platform Independent Programming with Python

I am interested in platform-independent programming in Python, in particular file and directory manipulations.

os.path module implements functions on pathnames. This module uses the following modules in different systems i.e. posixpath, ntpath, macpath, os2emxpath.

py2exe

py2exe lets you run python programs as native, using an exe and a python???.dll.

Python Programmatic Compilation

To ensure all your pyc's are up-to-date:

import compileall
compileall.compile_dir( 'code/'. force=True)

compileall is the module to byte-compile Python libraries. Useful in installers and for maintaining the freshnees of the "build" of your Python code.

Programming the Doomsday Rule

The Doomsday algorithm is designed for calculating the day of the week given a date. Here are the details.