Here's my situation: I'm typing this in a public library on a computer with OS windows 2000 server. I can run Internet explorer, word, excel and powerpoint, that's it. Maybe java, but it seems to be flaky.
I want to run python scripts from this computer. At home I have a multi-computer network (from better times) but no internet access anymore, I could use this to try out solutions. I also have access to a friends computer which has internet connection, but I can't visit his place all the time. He's away often but he's got a life of his own :-) So I'm thinking of running some kind of python webserver from a dedicated computer over there (visualizing some cherrypy webpage based interpreter at the moment) but I would like to know other options. However it would have to run from a webpage here ... For example I would like to run a python script over there (e.g. getting news from a usenet server) which puts the output in a zipfile on another webpage so that I can fetch it here with the Internet Explorer. There seems to be no traffic load problem since there would be only a few users (but it could become popular fast?). Also I'm worried about security issues, but not so much that I would consider installing some large scale payware professional solution. Let me know what you think, unless it costs money. On the other hand money would solve this problem so if I can do something to get that it would be even better. Anton [the things they make you go through ...] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
