catchpolej

We are using Greenfoot and BlueJ for the moment for JAVA - less options to distract from the coding but thanks for the tip.

Thanks Steve. The GPO is set to block exe's. I will see if your advice about changing the settings of where Python installs itself work. "A python script that is run within it won't spawn a secondary exe if that's what you mean?" Yes that is what I meant by my question. Steve

Hi, "It's only a matter of time...I think you are right. I have asked our technicians (yes I'm a teacher - just ducking to avoid shrapnel now) to install Python (IDLE) and it is blocked by group policy for everyone except Admin. We were not sure why. Can anyone help us? Also I was not sure whether the Python IDLE runs an executable if you stay within the IDE. Up to know we have been doing all our "proper" programming using JAVA so this issue has been avoided. Any pointers appreciated.