Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!81.171.88.16.MISMATCH!hq-usenetpeers!hq-usenetpeers.eweka.nl!xlned.com!feeder3.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!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 0.004 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.06; '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; '24,': 0.16; 'doing,': 0.16; 'exactly,': 0.16; 'expects': 0.16; 'finney': 0.16; 'gandhi': 0.16; 'imo,': 0.16; 'is;': 0.16; 'program?': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:install': 0.16; 'subject:possible': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'thu,': 0.19; 'machine': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'propose': 0.24; 'fine': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'invoke': 0.31; "user's": 0.31; 'writes:': 0.31; "i'd": 0.34; 'problem': 0.35; 'knows': 0.35; 'but': 0.35; 'interact': 0.36; 'subject:?': 0.36; 'step': 0.37; 'ben': 0.38; 'machines': 0.38; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'rather': 0.38; 'does': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'kind': 0.63; 'occur': 0.65; 'skip:\xe2 10': 0.65; 'between': 0.67; '8bit%:40': 0.68; '8bit%:43': 0.74; 'jul': 0.74; '\xe2\x80\x93': 0.77; 'received:125': 0.84 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 12:48:09 +1000 References: <2d7d457c-2030-43d0-94a6-6ceb93eb4d7c@googlegroups.com> <85fvhro55a.fsf@benfinney.id.au> 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: sha1:97rOiXjkgL+WZs3rbWqyi0cN/uc= 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: 22 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1406170104 news.xs4all.nl 2880 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:45008 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl X-Received-Bytes: 4353 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2139897011 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:75115 Chris Angelico writes: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > 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’? > > Network mounts work fine for this kind of thing. I'd rather not propose a solution until we know better what the problem is; what “roys2005” expects the behaviour to be. So the questions above need, IMO, answers from “roys2005”. -- \ “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very | `\ important that you do it.” —Mohandas K. Gandhi | _o__) | Ben Finney