Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.albasani.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'interpreter': 0.05; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'happen.': 0.09; 'input,': 0.09; 'output,': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'doing,': 0.16; 'exactly,': 0.16; 'expecting': 0.16; 'finney': 0.16; 'opposite': 0.16; 'program?': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'statement.': 0.16; 'subject:install': 0.16; 'subject:possible': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'trying': 0.19; 'machine': 0.22; 'programming': 0.22; 'network,': 0.22; 'install': 0.23; 'header :User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'specify': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'correct': 0.29; 'statement': 0.30; 'that.': 0.31; 'invoke': 0.31; 'use?': 0.31; "user's": 0.31; 'writes:': 0.31; 'run': 0.32; 'another': 0.32; 'knows': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'false': 0.36; 'interact': 0.36; 'machine.': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'step': 0.37; 'ben': 0.38; 'configured': 0.38; 'machines': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'users': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'central': 0.64; 'different': 0.65; 'occur': 0.65; 'between': 0.67; '\xe2\x80\x93': 0.77; 'truth': 0.81; 'received:125': 0.84; '\xe2\x80\x9cthe': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ben Finney Subject: Re: Is it possible to install Python on a network? Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:35:29 +1000 References: <2d7d457c-2030-43d0-94a6-6ceb93eb4d7c@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jigong.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ifHnjp/tXgWZKqb/gBSlZjXAZ4I= X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1406169344 news.xs4all.nl 2854 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:39629 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:75113 roys2005 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’? -- \ “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But | `\ the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound | _o__) truth.” —Niels Bohr | Ben Finney