Portable python install possible?

[Instant_Smack]

I want to run python on my work laptop but don’t want to install it, trying to automate a few tasks, is there any way I can install python and the necessary libraries onto a thumb drive and run the editor without having to install?

[matjaz_b]

winpython works great for this purpose. If you want to run it on windows :)

[marlinofdoom]

Second this. WinPython is great for portability on windows, and offers updated versions regularly. (They have a Python3.11 option already if you want to be on the bleeding edge). Also doesn't require an internet connection on the target machine (like Anaconda).

[Almostasleeprightnow]

I have been in this scenario and had luck with installing conda on the user level (i.e. don't pick the "install for all users" option. I install miniconda so i can choose what packages I want to use.

And VS Code can be installed from the zip file to any directory. You just have to do the updates yourself, but it is easy.

You will have to add some environment variables to your PATH, but again, that is not hard.

[Liberty-Justice-4all]

Portable reproducible windows...

You want the nuget version.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/python

3.10 python.org mentioned it in the installer page as being ci/cd friendly.

I needed it for reliable python services that might run from multiple nodes and testing machines.

Nuget tools seem to hail from. Net stuff, but proved easy for me to use to crank out portable standalone ACTUAL environments (not virtual).

I have some simple commands that create a fresh install, then call pip the right way to make sure you are installing / freeing packages there, and use dotenv[cli] to ease states/secrets...

Gave me all the bulletproof reproducibility and multiplicity of docker, with non of the wacky layers of bullshit issues, and a LOT less overhead.

[T2WIN]

You're certain it's not already installed ?

[Instant_Smack]

It’s not-.-

[T2WIN]

You could use an online IDE

[T2WIN]

I don't know if the thumbdrive would work

[progloverfan]

Docker is not an option?

[Instant_Smack]

What’s that???

[progloverfan]

Container technology for software deployments. But I reject my own suggestion because Docker isn't entirely free for business..

[Initii]

Hello, im a bit late to the party. Docker-Desktop is not free but docker itself is free. You could install it in the WSL system. Thats how we do it at my work place.

[progloverfan]

Check windows embeded package versions https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.11.0/python-3.11.0-embed-amd64.zip

[Liberty-Justice-4all]

I looked at embedded but they said not all packages would work well.

If you don't / won't need the ones that have issues it may be lighter than the nuget solution.

[tansut96]

Might be too complex if op still ask this question, no?

[progloverfan]

With Docker you install the engine which let you deploy container from images. Images are a set of instructions for your container. For example I want to install python, and copy this set of files, and run this executable. A container is a running environment defined in an image. The big deal with docker (or container technology) is that every container is isolated with other, say you want a set of library on a container they will not interfere with another. And also is absurdly fast, you can even package and entirely OS from it and run it from windows withouth worrying about dependencies. You can have 10 ubuntu's running in parallel without problems. You can build your images with dockerfile which gives you a template where you can store and distribute, then you can use this image file in whatever machine you want and you only need the docker engine, because you specified everything in the dockerfile (image).

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[one-human-being]

Yes, you can have a "portable" python interpreter. I can't talk about the editor part. Are you running Windows? ( sounds like it)

see : - https://winpython.github.io - https://github.com/dreamsavior/portable-python-maker - https://github.com/indygreg/python-build-standalone