file access in jythonc

[John Howard]

"Diez B. Roggisch" <deetsNOSPAM at web.de> wrote in message news:<ch34li$86k$05$1 at news.t-online.com>...
> > So...are you saying it can be done? That is, a IE can access a local
> > file (assuming it's there, of course) using a jythonc product?
> > Question is -- HOW???
> 
> As I said - search google for JAVA APPLETS ACCESSING LOCAL FILES - then you
> can do that using jython. As a matter of fact, the whole process has to do
> with signing jars - nobody cares if these contain classes generated by
> javac, jikes, jythonc or carefully handwritten jvm bytecode....

So does that mean that a jre does not have to be on the local pc? The
local pc does not have to set policies, etc. If that is true, then all
I've said about jython I take back. It is truly useful!