py2exe, library.zip and python.exe

[Martin Evans]

"Thomas Heller" <theller at ctypes.org> wrote in message 
news:mailman.4509.1172662567.32031.python-list at python.org...
> Martin Evans schrieb:
>> I have converted a Python script using py2exe and have it set to not 
>> bundle
>> or compress. The result is my exe and all the support files including
>> library.zip (exactly as planned - nice job py2exe).
>>
>> Question:  My py2exe application needs to be able to execute extra copies 
>> of
>> python.exe. I have placed python.exe in the same directory. It obviously
>> picks up the main python24.dll but how can I configure things so that it
>> would use the same library.zip for all the library files?  This would 
>> save
>> me having two sets of files.
>>
>> (The py2exe application happens to be a twisted server app running as a
>> service which has the ability to launch python scripts as a logged on 
>> user)
>>
>> Thanks,  Martin.
>>
>>
> You have to put library.zip on sys.path.  Maybe you could create a site.py 
> file
> in that directory which can do this, I assume the python.exe will try to 
> load that.
>
> There may be other possibilities as well.
>
> Thomas
>

Many thanks for the tip, it got me thinking. When python.exe is loaded, 
sys.path already had python24.zip in it so changing the specified library in 
py2exe from the default libary.zip to python24.zip solved it!

Martin