Re: [Visualpython-users] Vpython For Low-Tech Artists

[Bruce S. <bas...@un...>]

I don't happen to know about people using VPython for artistic purposes, 
but on question 2 I'll comment that there may be a solution for Windows. 
It is possible to install Python without touching the Windows registry, 
so you don't need administrative access. I have for example run this 
version (including VPython) out of a remote file on a public-cluster 
Windows machine on which I couldn't install software myself.

If I remember correctly, what I did was install Python in the special 
nonadministrative mode (which if I remember correctly was an option in 
the install process), then run the VPython installer, telling it where 
Python was. Then the entire Python23 folder could simply be written to 
CD and used from there, I would think. I think the only (mild) 
limitation is that *.py files won't automatically be linked to Python. 
But as long as you start from IDLE, rather than double-clicking a *.py 
file, this won't matter.

Bruce Sherwood

Joel Kahn wrote:

>I have two related questions.
>
>1. I am looking at ways to use vpython as a set of
>tools to help artists who have relatively limited
>computer expertise and who mainly work in traditional
>physical media--textiles, sculpture, jewelry, &c. Does
>anyone have info on work that has already been done
>along these general lines?
>
>2. In connection with the above, I want to have an
>installation of vpython that can effectively and
>reliably run entirely off of a CD-ROM on a computer
>that has no python stuff installed at all. I'm not
>sure whether my attempts so far to set this up are
>going to function right or not. Has anyone out there
>made this work? If so, can I get some details?
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated. I'll be glad to
>pass progress reports on to interested parties.
>
>Joel Kahn
>Springfield, Missouri
>
>
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