running python from a memory stick?

[Thorsten Kampe]

* John Salerno (2006-07-13 14:54 +0000)
> Is there a way to 'install' and use Python on a memory stick, just as 
> you would on any computer? I use Windows, and I know the installation 
> does things with the registry, so probably I couldn't use the executable 
> file to install it. But is it possible to do it some other way, such as 
> how you might build it yourself on Linux (although I don't know how to 
> do that yet) and then just write and run scripts normally straight from 
> your memory stick?

I use Python in connection with Cygwin from USB stick for more than a
year. Simply install cygwin on the stick (or copy it from a local
installation). Then use the following script to set the registry
entries before you first run any cygwin program. Now you have Python
in every Internet Cafe in the world ;-)...

,--- * mkcygwin.bat
| @ echo off
| set MOUNT=\cygwin\bin\mount -xfub
| 
| title [cygwin] importing settings
| 
| REM umount -c, umount -A
| reg delete "hklm\software\cygnus solutions" /f > nul 2>&1
| reg delete "hkcu\software\cygnus solutions" /f > nul 2>&1
| 
| %MOUNT% --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive
| %MOUNT% %~d0\cygwin     /
| %MOUNT% %~d0\cygwin/bin /usr/bin
| %MOUNT% %~d0\cygwin/lib /usr/lib
| %MOUNT% %TEMP%          /tmp
`---