installing python on a server?

[John Salerno]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:02:46 -0500, John Salerno
> <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> 
>> Yikes, that's all the stuff I don't know. Maybe this is over my head 
>> right now.
> 
> 	Let's start with something simple then... Do you have admin (root)
> privileges on this server machine -- or is it a machine belonging to
> some ISP and you are hoping to add Python/CGI capability?

I guess it might be the latter. What I want is to add Python capability 
to the server where my website is running, so that I can write Python 
web apps and incorporate them into my HTML files.