This post seeks advice on whether python would be appropriate for a task, or whether you can suggest another approach.
The project is to transcribe historical records such as schools admissions, ship passenger lists, birth/death/marriages, etc for genealogy studies. What we need is a simple software tool that will give the user a form set out like the page being transcribed, do some simple validation and put the data in a file (can be fixed field length plain text). Data files from volunteers will be compiled into a master database. This software tool needs to work on a variety of different computers; Win95, Win98, WinXP, Mac, Linux. So, would python be a good choice for this, and how should I go about it? I'm not a programmer and have only done a few little python scripts that run from the command line. TIA Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
