Why There Is No Python Compressed Archive or Binaries ?

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Mon Jan 17 12:22:24 EST 2022


On 2022-01-17, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 08:07:07 -0800 (PST), Grant Edwards
><grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> declaimed the following:
>
>>On 2022-01-17, Sina Mobasheri <sinamobasheri at outlook.com> wrote:
>>> Java offers download JDK...
>>> [...]
>>> My question is why Python hasn't option for downloading as
>>> Compressed Archive ?
>>
>>Isn't that what the installers are?
>
> 	I get the impression they are looking for a zero-install option... IE:
> unpack onto a USB flash drive, take to another computer, and just be able
> to run from the flash drive without needing to fiddle with PATH, registry,
> etc.

OK, I see.

> A way to run Python on shared (library) computers that may not have it
> installed, and for which users have no ability to install applications.

I guess I don't know enough about Windows to comment. I've packaged
apps for Windows that include the Python interpreter and libs, but
they still need to be "installed".

--
Grant




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