no-installation version of python

[Robert Kern]

Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:
> mr.porteiro.head at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Is there a stand-alone version of python out there that I can
>> package with my scripts so that I don't have to bother with
>> something like py2exe?
> 
> Isn't this the exact intention of py2exe?

I think he wants a no-install (or, perhaps more accurately, 
simply-unzip-to-install) version of the interpreter that doesn't need to touch 
the Windows registry or copy DLLs to system locations. py2exe builds such a 
thing (or nearly so) for the application itself, if it works. However, since 
py2exe is somewhat fiddly, something like Movable Python might give him most of 
the benefits with less effort.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco