[Tutor] Burning python onto CD-ROM?

[Remco Gerlich]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 06:49:48AM -0700, folklore hopeful wrote:
> Hello everyone out there,
> 
> Here's a wacky question.  Would it be possible to burn an installed copy of
> python onto CD-ROM, along with a *.py script file, so that I could put the
> cd-rom into any windows 95 PC and run the script without installing python
> onto the harddrive?
> 
> What are the issues that I need to be aware of in attempting this?  What
> files necessary to run python2.0 are placed outside of the python20 directory
> tree, if any?
> 
> (this would hypothetically be python2.0 with windows 95)
> 
> I'm not sure if I worded this question correctly, so maybe I'll need to 
> clarify.  Thanks in advance for the advice!

If you get Pythonware's PY20 version of Python 2.0, you have a version that
installs into a directory, and uses nothing outside of it, no registry,
nothing. So you can burn that to a CD and it should work. PY20 also comes with
some cool libraries like PIL. See
http://www.secretlabs.com/products/python/index.htm

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Remco Gerlich