Re: [Visualpython-users] UPDATE: High School Network Security

[Gary <pa...@in...>]

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>Any thoughts from you folks? Do they have any truly valid points? Perhaps a
>"Live CD" is my best (only?) option.  How is this created?
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Not trivial, but not impossible.  I'm assuming that there is no current 
live CD that includes vpython.  I'm not aware of any, but that's about 
to change (see below).

The issue is that you can't install new software in the same way that 
you do on a hard drive installation.  You can't write to the live CD 
file system.  So new software has to  be installed somewhere else ... a 
flash drive, or an external USB hard drive or something.  In any case it 
means installing in a non-standard location.  That means a certain 
amount of education, work, and tweaking.  In the case of vpython (and 
any other python package) it might be straightforward since it is fairly 
easy to maintain a local site-packages directory.   (Assumes all the 
other requirements are met).

Better:  vpython is scheduled to be included in the next version of 
Quantian  ( http://www.quantian.org ) 

Quantian includes just about every piece of scientific software that you 
could ever want or even imagine.

-gary