python24.dll and encodings ?

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Thomas Heller wrote:
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> A PEP discussing the rationales would *really* be great.

My whole impetus for this thread was to minimize the size of Python 
executables created with py2exe.  Right now they tend to be rather 
large, even for very small applications, as they include a bunch of 
unutilized Python functionality and/or encodings.

It would be nice to see a Python environment structure that is more 
desktop-application-friendly for applications that distribute the Python 
environment WITH the application (i.e. using py2exe).  Ideally, it would 
be nice to be able to distribute as minimal amount of the Python runtime 
environment as possible.

New PEP: "Small is beautiful!"   ;-)