Installing Lightweight Python

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Nima Mohammadi wrote:
> Well, I tried to run Python with -v option. It seems that python26.zip
> is partially loaded but can't be used, because zlib is "unavailable".
This is normal.
the zip library itself cannot be zipped, as it is needed to unzip and
extract th other libs.

> 
> nima at nima-desktop:~/py$ ./bin/python -v
> Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> # installing zipimport hook
> import zipimport # builtin
> # installed zipimport hook
> # zipimport: found 2509 names in /home/nima/py/lib/python26.zip
> # zipimport: zlib UNAVAILABLE
> 'import site' failed; traceback:
> zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available
> # zipimport: zlib UNAVAILABLE
> 
> Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, May 17 2010, 18:36:54)
> [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import sys
>>>> sys.path
> ['', '/home/nima/py/lib/python26.zip', '/home/nima/py/lib/python2.6/',
> '/home/nima/py/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/home/nima/py/lib/
> python2.6/lib-tk', '/home/nima/py/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/home/nima/
> py/lib/lib-dynload']
> 
> 
> --
> Yours sincerely,
> Nima Mohammadi