Need to install Python onto our school network

[spmartin27]

i have been tasked with setting up python in our computer science lab, part of their course is to learn python. i herd that there has been many problems with installing python in schools one being that the default save directory is on the C:\\ drive which is no good. is there a way of installing this successfully? the default save directory will need to be in student documents area.

 

i would appreciate any advise.

[mrbios]

I've not seen that issue with the default save directory, but using mandatory profiles one issue i did have to overcome was the program opening at all. Pretty simple fix though for me, I just needed to manually create a .idlerc folder in the root of the users profile, you can either add an ".idlerc" folder manually to the mandatory profile or have it created via GPP (personally i chose the latter, along with a clause to only create the folder if the exe exists on the PC)

 

Hopefully that helps a bit

[MrFrostmaul]

This would be really helpful for me to know as well as we have installed default to the c drive as only teacher is using this at the moment, but really need like what you are saying when students are starting to use it.

[spmartin27]

Thank you for such a prompt reply, Forgive me but I'm new to all this, would you mind walking me though the process on what I need to do.