Python on a public library computer

[Timothy Smith]

John J. Lee wrote:

>"anton.vredegoor at gmail.com" <anton.vredegoor at gmail.com> writes:
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>>Here's my situation:
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>>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.
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>>I want to run python scripts from this computer. At home I have a
>>multi-computer network (from better times) but no internet access
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>Why not Jython?
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>John
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how locked down is the computer? there's a few (brave) public access 
unix shell providers out there. if you could run telnet you could use them