Python on a USB storage device?

[yaipa h.]

Kevin,

If you don't mind kick starting your app by hand then everything
should work just fine.  They are after all just disk drives that
use USB as the hardware layer rather than the devices's native ATA,
ATAPI, or SCSI physical layer.

Now if you want to start your app using AUTORUN or AUTOPLAY, good luck.
AUTORUN has been squeezed out of XP because of it's rather
large security hole. With AUTOPLAY, you can simulate AUTORUN behavior,
but true to MSoft it's rather convoluted.

IOMEGA has nice utility that automates AUTOPLAY a bit. Once you understand
what their app does you will understand what you are up against.
  
   http://www.iomega-activedisk.com/landing.jsp

Cheers,

   --Alan



"Kevin Altis" <altis at semi-retired.com> wrote in message news:<VXcVa.28$HY3.42617 at news.uswest.net>...
> Does anyone have experience running Python from a USB storage device?
> Whether it is the need for doing a demo of your application, doing a bit of
> consulting, or just showing off Python, it would be handy to be able to run
> Python on machines that don't already have Python installed. I'm thinking
> about giving this a try, but wondered if anyone is already doing it and the
> downsides, if any?
> 
> CD-ROM is not very effective because the media is read-only and too big to
> carry in your pocket. I think USB 2.0 is supposed to be roughly 20x faster
> than USB for storage devices, but I'm guessing that if you can live with the
> load times for machines that don't have USB 2.0, plain USB should still be
> effective.
> 
> HP Windows desktops, Linux, and Mac OS X already have Python installed and
> Mac OS X (Panther) will have Python 2.3. But even so, you generally have to
> install additional packages to get the functionality you want. Having all
> you need on a USB storage device and not needing to install anything on the
> host machine seems like it would be very convenient.
> 
> ka