Python Portable 2.6 Development Test 1

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Submitted by TaffinFoxcroft on September 21, 2008 - 8:54pm

Application: Python
Category:Programming
Description: Python is an easy to learn programming language, used by many big companies such as NASA. Python is capable of doing many things from web development to linux download managers. Although it was originally portablised by tanisthalon, I ended up taking over this.

Download Python Portable 2.6 Development Test 1 [16.6 MB download / 54.7 MB installed]
(MD5: 3a6c427f955f86279938d810aa5b798c)

Release Notes:

2.6 Development Test 1 (2008-11-11): Initial release

fixed minor problem regarding the HOME directory and included the pywin32 addon.

Development Test 2 (2008-11-21): Initial release

Added a launcher for IDLE.
Why do I start at Dev Test 2, you ask? Because tanisthalon already did Dev Test 1 ;)
Note: thanks to tanisthalon for letting me take over this, and OliverK for Generator.


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Ok somethings I found are

Ok somethings I found are that the IDLE launcher doesn't work at all but the Commandline launcher does, for the Operating system I've tested it using Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 and Windows XP Pro SP3

found the problem. will fix &

found the problem. will fix & upload.

Australia's Great Dividing Range : Dividing From What?
Patrick Patience is a key virtue.
behold, return of taneth111! (insert darth vader music here)

A bit offtopic

Please note that some Apps, for example Blender, need a specific version of Python to function. In that case it's not use Python x.x or higher.

sorry I disappeared for 4

sorry I disappeared for 4 days, but some family matters popped up. LOGAN, could you clarify that?

Australia's Great Dividing Range : Dividing From What?
Patrick Patience is a key virtue.
behold, return of taneth111! (insert darth vader music here)

He's just saying that if your

He's just saying that if your using a program like Blender (thats python based) it's looking for a certain version of python and possibly will not work with the newer version
:)

win32

posted this on the dev test 1, since tanisthalon doesn't maintain it anymore I'll ask here..

Has anyone been able to get the win32 module to work portably? Copying from installation isn't enough.

link? google isn't being very

link? google isn't being very helpful with this one. on a side note, when the win32 module works i'll update python to 2.6.

Australia's Great Dividing Range : Dividing From What?
Patrick Patience is a key virtue.
behold, return of taneth111! (insert darth vader music here)

Should have used the complete

Should have used the complete package name, pywin32. Here it is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/
Checked the installation process, it installs atleast 2 dlls to system32:
Copied pythoncom25.dll to C:\WINDOWS\system32\pythoncom25.dll
Copied pywintypes25.dll to C:\WINDOWS\system32\pywintypes25.dll
on a local install there's also python25.dll in the same directory, but i guess that's a dll belonging to python itself.

new version. it has pywin32

new version. it has pywin32 installed on it as well as Python 2.6, but if there's problems don't hesitate to ask.

Australia's Great Dividing Range : Dividing From What?
Patrick Patience is a key virtue.
behold, return of taneth111! (insert darth vader music here)

Thanks, but it doesn't seem

Thanks, but it doesn't seem to work. Did a clean install and importing pywintypes and/or win32api fails (even if python 2.6 and pywin32 is installed locally)