On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Pythonnoob via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > I have written a program in Python track the number of visits customers make > to our business based upon their account numbers. Right now we are doing this > via paper. We have 7 computers. Each with a different user. We do have a > network and server. I know this program will run on my computer and I can > enter the information and update it from my computer. I want all of our > associates to have the program on their computer and be able to update it in > real time. So at the end of the day, week, month, etc..... the visits can be > calculated. I know that I can install Python on each of the computers, but I > know this would be local to their computer. I also know I could have our IT > guy install the program on the server as well. But in order for the stats to > be updated by all associates in real time , would I have to build a database > and then get that installed on the server ? >
Hi! Welcome to the list. (I'd like to be able to greet you by name, but I don't think "Noob" is a name. Are you Todd? Or perhaps I can call you Christine, after CookingForNoobs?) It might not be *necessary* to do it that way, but I would certainly recommend it. These days, the easiest way to arrange these sorts of things would be a web server that manages everything, and have your associates point their web browsers to it. It's a little bit of work to set up, but everyone knows how to use a web browser these days, and they don't need to install Python. Have you any experience with building web sites in Python? If not, there are lots of tutorials around. Start with Python 3 and Flask, and put together an HTML form to accept information from one of your associates, with another function to process the responses. Use a PostgreSQL database to store the information, and either psycopg2 or SQLAlchemy to access that from Python. There are other ways to do things, but this is how I'd recommend it. That's a very VERY basic roadmap; it's meant to be enough for you to recognize which parts you don't know yet. From there, you can hopefully dig into the project a bit, and add some stats and stuff like that. Should be fun! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
