M$ windows python libs installed in arbitrary directories forcustomized python distributions

[Fredrik Lundh]

"alf" <ask at me.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> It turned out it is quite simple - I just install the python from
> python.org and all the libs needed. Then I take python2n.dll from
> c:\win*\system32 and move directly to PYTHONDIR. Then I can just tar/zip
> the PYTHON dir and distribute around so users do not have to deal with
> dozen of libs and packages.
>
> Small difficulty is a maintenance of such "distribution". Namely when I
> want install a new lib M$ installer just can not find my python
> installations probably due to missing registry entries.
>
> Is there any way to force the actual python site-lib for M$ installers????

it's spelled "Windows installers", and code to do the necessary registry updates
can be found here:

    http://effbot.org/zone/python-register.htm

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