Installing Python on a Windows 2000 Server

[Serge Orlov]

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.