[Python-Dev] Windows registry path not ignored with Py_IgnoreEnvironmentFlag set

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/5/2010 10:55 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I don't object (this had never occurred to me), but is Python on
> Windows fully functioning when the registry is entirely ignored?

There have been a couple of portable CPython-on-a-CD or memory stick 
that supposedly run on any machine without 'installation' (writing to 
the registry), so they must run without reading anything Python specific.