On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
For the time being, things like PyInstaller, PyRun, Portable Python,
etc are going to offer a better solution than anything we provide in
the standard installers.

See also Anaconda and Enthought Canopy. I think miniconda, for instance, may give you just what you need, if you don't want to go the py2exe/PyInstaller approach (though you probably do want to go that way, as far as I can tell from your description of your use-case.

I'm inclined to think that this does not belong as part of the standard installer. 

-Chris

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