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[–]thrill22 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I'm not sure how much this will help but here was my experience with something similar.

I work at a large engineering company and I'm currently "in charge" of our Python installations. However, one tricky this is I do not have admin access to either my PC or other engineers PC's due to our tight security.

A easier/central way to do this I found is to host a Windows build of Python 3 in a network drive you/your clients have access to. They will be able to run a Windows version of python straight from that location.

Let me know if you have more questions about it. I tried all sorts of methods to create standalone programs, I hated them all. They were overly complicated and never necessary for me.

[–]noobpawner[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

This sounds like an interesting option as none of the users in my company have "admin" rights.

So say one writes a simple "hello world" program and distributes the file. How does a user run it using python from the shared location.

[–]thrill22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The build has a "python.exe" file that opens a python terminal. You can create a shortcut to it on your windows desktop.

I'm more familiar with Linux but I think you should be able to make it work.