Not installing interpreter on local machine

[Michael Abbott]

shezafd at yahoo.com (Daphna Shezaf) wrote in 
news:54c26728.0108030603.5d4ed4b7 at posting.google.com:

> Hi,
> I am a python enthusiast and have been programming around in python
> for sometime. I came up with the idea to use python for internal
> scripts we need in my company (for example: build scripts).
> That's nice (I think), but it will be hard to convince people that
> python interpreter should be installed on every machine around.
> Do you think it will be possible to install the interpreter on a
> single server, so that people will actually run their scripts on this
> server? Is it possible (and how), for the script to run a program on a
> different machine (We're using windows 2000 LAN)? Any other helpful
> hints?

You might be better off using py2exe and distributing the executables it 
generates.