[Tutor] Curious newbie

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> Python, don't they. I doubt that MS sends out the Python 
> intepreter in their operating system. 

Sad but true :-)

> But, go to 
> http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ 
> and get the Py2exe program. That will make Python into exe 
> files, that can be ran directly.

But realise that if you ship a lot of python programs they 
will wind up with a lot of installations of Python on their 
PC, in which case it will save space if you get them to 
install python and then just send them the .py files.

A bit like Microsoft do with VB and the VBRUNXXX.DLL 
which basically contains the VB interpreter stuff.

Actually it might be good for python to have a direct 
equivalent - a runtime only distribution without the docs 
and .py sources just the interpreter, compiled libraries 
etc. It would probably only be about 2-3M or so in size...

Just a thought, 

Alan G.