Porting an application from one OS to another can be a time consuming process. Fortunately, wxPython takes the pain out of the process. This is only the 2nd time that I’ve ported my code to Linux. I usually write for Windows XP on Windows XP at work. When I originally wrote wxPyMail for work, I used Mark Hammond’s PyWin32 library to get the user’s full name and username to help in constructing their return address. Here’s the code I used then:

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