Zipping python modules

[Brian Vanderburg II]

I've installed Python 2.5 on MSW and it works. I'm preparing it to run
from a thumb drive so I can run applications by dropping them onto the
python.exe or from command line/etc. It works but the size is quite
large. I've compressed most of the executables with UPX even the dlls
under site-packages, but is there a way I could compress the top-level
'lib' directory into a python.zip instead so save some space, and do I
need the 'test' directory (which is about 10MB itself)?

Brian Vanderburg II

[Larry Bates]

Brian Vanderburg II wrote:

I've installed Python 2.5 on MSW and it works. I'm preparing it to run
from a thumb drive so I can run applications by dropping them onto the
python.exe or from command line/etc. It works but the size is quite
large. I've compressed most of the executables with UPX even the dlls
under site-packages, but is there a way I could compress the top-level
'lib' directory into a python.zip instead so save some space, and do I
need the 'test' directory (which is about 10MB itself)?

Brian Vanderburg II

With thumb drives now being 2-4Gb what possible need would there be to worry
about 10Mb? Remember by zipping things you are trading performance for size as
well.

-Larry

[Allen]

Larry Bates wrote:

Brian Vanderburg II wrote:

>I've installed Python 2.5 on MSW and it works. I'm preparing it to
run from a thumb drive so I can run applications by dropping them onto
the python.exe or from command line/etc. It works but the size is
quite large. I've compressed most of the executables with UPX even
the dlls under site-packages, but is there a way I could compress the
top-level 'lib' directory into a python.zip instead so save some
space, and do I need the 'test' directory (which is about 10MB itself)?

Brian Vanderburg II

With thumb drives now being 2-4Gb what possible need would there be to
worry about 10Mb? Remember by zipping things you are trading
performance for size as well.

-Larry

My python 'portable' version is about 150 MB (wxPython, PyQT, and a few
others), but I'm going to purchase one of those nice pocket hard drives
with plenty of space :) I did remove the *.pyo files for the install
for now and just let the scripts use the *.pyc, and most of the test
suites which I assume are use only when building/testing the extensions
so I probably won't need at runtime hopefully.

Brian Vanderburg II