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Re: How to download a file only once
by Jp Calderone other posts by this author
Jan 25 2003 6:21PM messages near this date
How to download a file only once | newbie: python/C extensions in cygwin
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 06:30:52PM +0100, A wrote:
>  Hi all,
>  =20
>  My Python application runs on  users' computers.
>   I want to allow  one and only one user to download one file from the lis=
t of files that are on=20
>  server. This file, after being downloaded, can not be downloaded any more.
>  What is the best solution of that problem?

  There is no workable approach to this problem, save to redefine your
desires.

  Why do you want to impose this restriction?  Maybe someone can offer a
better solution to the *real* problem you face.

  Jp

--=20
I have a new method for blowing off the idiots who ask questions.  I say,=
=20
'That information is on my web page.  Shoo, shoo.

What happens when they find out it isn't?

I'll say, 'You must have misunderstood your question'
                - Scott Adams, Dilbert
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