running distutils installer without admin on windows

[Jesper Olsen]

timothy.williams at nvl.army.mil wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> We don't have admin privs on our Windows boxes, but I'd like to be able
> to install a package built using distutils. I was able to install
> Python without admin, but when I tried to run the installer for this
> package I'm trying to install, I get a message saying that I need admin
> privs.
>
> Is there a way around this? Why can't it just put things in
> C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages like a good little installer?
>
> Do I need to put a service call in to our admins to do this?
>
> Thanks.

You can use the --home switch to specify a local directory to install
in, e.g.:

% python setup.py install --home=.

-Jesper