Mike Moum wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a civil engineer who also doubles as chief programmer for > technical applications at my company. Most of our software is written > in Visual Basic because our VP in charge of I.T. likes to have > "consistency", and at the moment we're a Microsoft shop. He has > assigned me the task of developing an new application, the exact > nature of which is not important for my question. I told him that, in > my opinion, that Visual Basic was not the best choice for developing > this application, and that I wanted to use Python. After a bit of > discussion of the pros and cons, he said to go ahead. I managed to > keep my jaw from hitting the floor. :>) > We have a central server array running Windows Server 2000 (I think > that's the right name; networking is not my specialty, but it's > definately Windows). Some of our workstations run Windows 2000; others > run Windows XP Pro. I would like to install Python on the server, and > run the application that I'll be developing from the workstations, > without having to install any Python components on the workstations > themselves. In other words, the Python executable, and the various > libraries, dll's, and what have you, as well as the application that > I'm developing, should all reside on the server. The only thing on the > workstations would be a shortcut to myapplication.py. > > Does anyone know whether it is possible to do this? I've done some > Google searching, with no conclusive results, and poked about on > python.org, but haven't really been able to find anything. Normally > I'd be happy to just try it out and see what happens, but we're > breaking new ground here (this is an amazingly big step for our > hide-bound IS department!), so I'd like everything to go as smoothly > as possible.
Try Movable Python http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/movpy/ When you will be creating a shortcut to you application it shouldn't point to yourapplication.py directly but rather at \\yourserver\movpy\movpyw.exe \\yourserver\yourapp\yourapplication.py Serge. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
