python for flash drives

[Fuzzyman]

Putty wrote:
> Is there such a thing as a special version of python that I can run
> more efficiently from a flash drive?  I'll be at college for hours
> every day with hours of free time for the next few months, but the only
> computers at my disposal are windows PCs that use GoBack to auto-revert
> every reboot.  So I'm kinda stuck.  I don't want to have to reinstall
> python AND wxPython AND PIL every stinking time I log on.  However,
> using it from my flash drive is painfully slow taking up to a minute
> just to execute some scripts.  And it's not doing me any favors with
> I/O to the flash disk either.
>
> So I was wondering if anybody knew of some flash drive implementations
> of python that might exist out there somewhere?

Use Movable Python, which comes with wxPython and PIL.

It's never been that slow for me off a USB flash drive, but you could
just copy the distribution onto the PC each time you use it.

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/movpy/

Fuzzyman