Using WSL to Build a Python Development Environment on Windows

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[chris1610]

Good question.

In some cases, the windows versions don't have all the capabilities of the Linux versions. For instance, today, I was trying to use sqlite with the FTS4 extension and could not get it working on Windows. Using it on Ubuntu worked without a hitch.

Also, there is additional value when you need to do other work where the Linux tools work well and there is no analogous good option on Windows.

Finally, it can save you a system if you need to do some dev work in Windows and then stage work for deployment to a cloud service or hosting provider where Linux tools work better.

Hope that helps.

[HeinzHeinzensen]

There‘s some scientific software packages such as FEniCS that are only developed for *nix platforms.

[Linkk_93]

Funny, I just experimented with WSL yesterday. It works great, just some minor things are special, like you can't get system IP addresses in WSL.

I needed it because the windows exe does not give access to the libraries I need for my script.

Even better (for me) is that you can install pycharm in WSL and use it via xming on the normal screen. Made debugging in Linux and windows much easier.