Is there a small Python runtime environment installer?

[Steve Holden]

"Tex Riddell" <tex_r at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have some useful scripts that I'd like to share with someone that
> doesn't have Python.  He doesn't want to install all of Python right
> now (like examples, utilities, source, IDE's and tk - yuck), he'd
> rather just have an executable or install a simple runtime library and
> run my script.
>
> I only know of two main distributions of python and each are made for
> people developing with python.  Is there a simple, compact, binary
> distribution available anywhere?
>
> Ideally, I'd like to see a binary shared library, compiled for the
> target platform, with a minimum of external dependencies.  Hopefully,
> with support scripts (for standard features) compiled to byte code and
> compressed or at least clumped together in a single file (or a few
> files, one for each larger feature area).
>
> More specifically I'm looking for something for the windows
> environment, but one should be able to make something like this
> multi-platform, right?
>
> How can we expect python to become more mainstream if only developers
> can understand the environment that must be set up for scripts to run?
>
> I really don't have time to learn distutils (re-inventing the wheel
> that I'm sure so many have done) in order to install a runtime
> environment on someone's machine so they can run a simple 8k script.
>
Probably the closest thing you'll find is PythonWare's distributions:

    http://www.pythonware.com/products/python/index.htm

Probably not what you want, but the closest I know about.

regards
 Steve
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