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Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network?

From Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Subject Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network?
Date 2014-07-24 12:35 +1000
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roys2005 <roys2005@gmail.com> writes:

>   I am trying to find out how I can install Python on a central machine
>   so that all users can use it

That's what confuses me. How do you envisage this working? On a given
machine, you can *run* programs only on that machine.

If you want to run a program on a different machine, you must somehow
invoke it using a network service already configured to do that. What
service are you expecting to use? SSH? HTTP? There is nothing about a
programming language interpreter which pents a way to run programs
across a network, unless you can specify *how* that is to happen.

What do you imaging a user doing, exactly, on machine ‘foo’ to make a
program execute on machine ‘bar’? At what step – exactly how – does the
communication between the machines occur to invoke the program? How is
the user's input, and the program's output, communicated in a way that
machine ‘foo’ knows to interact with machine ‘bar’?

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Ben Finney

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Is it possible to install Python on a network? roys2005@gmail.com - 2014-07-22 13:49 -0700
  Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? emile <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-07-22 14:08 -0700
  Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? roys2005 <roys2005@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 17:41 -0700
    Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-07-22 20:51 -0700
      Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? roys2005 <roys2005@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 07:15 -0700
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 01:46 +1000
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Ned Deily <nad@acm.org> - 2014-07-23 16:47 -0700
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 20:40 -0700
    Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-23 14:18 +1000
      Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? roys2005 <roys2005@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 07:24 -0700
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 01:56 +1000
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-24 12:35 +1000
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 12:42 +1000
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-24 12:48 +1000
        Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-24 12:52 +1000
    Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-23 16:17 +1000

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