Python on NT systems (help a Unix guy, please)

bjorn bjorn at roguewave.com
Fri Dec 17 19:50:28 EST 1999


The standard installation, plus the win32 packages is 11.3 Mb.

-- bjorn

Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> I recently protyped a program in Python that is destined to run on a Windows
> NT box. As usual, the Python version runs well enough that I have no real wish
> to rewrite it in C. So all that remains is to convince the owner of the NT box
> to install Python on his machine.
>
> The problem: disk space is a little tight on the target machine. Since I don't
> have any Windows machines at home at the moment, could somebody please let me
> know (just roughly) the disk space requirements for Python on NT? (private
> email is ok if you don't want to spam the list).
>
> Just for comparison purposes, a reasonably standard Python install on my Linux
> box (the only additional thing is the LLNL Numeric package) takes up just
> under 24MB, the requirements for tkinter is another 5.5MB with wxPython
> (source code and all) being 18MB (plus whatever wxWindows requires).
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Malcolm Tredinnick
>
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