interpreter

[Brad Clements]

If your laptop has a pcmcia slot, you could borrow an ethernet card and
download the full python from the internet. If you only have a parallel
port, you can use Microsoft peer-to-peer using a "loopback" parallel cable
to copy directly between two PCs

There's always a way to avoid floppies :-)

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"Skip Montanaro" <skip at pobox.com> wrote in message
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>     > I'm using python to create a program for my science fair project,
and
>     > I'm going to present it on a rather ancient laptop that has windows
>     > 95. Unfortunately it only has a floppy port so I can't install
>     > anything bigger than that, and I was wondering how I could just
>     > download the python interpreter, without idle and all the other
stuff,
>     > so I can run the program for my presentation. Is there a way to
>     > separate it once you have downloaded the rest of it onto a different
>     > computer?
>
> Assuming you run the installer on another machine with more space, you
> should be able to delete the parts you don't want and zip up the remainder
> into a small enough package which will fit on a floppy.  Does it have to
run
> from the floppy as well?  If not, you can be less ruthless in what you
> delete and zip up pieces of the Python tree onto multiple floppies.  (In
> fact, WinZip or other zip utilities may know about saving across multiple
> floppies.)
>
> Also, double-check that the version of Python you want to use will run on
> Win95.  I suspect it will, but I doubt Python gets a lot of testing there
> these days.
>
> Good luck with the science fair project...
>
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