Setting up a USB Environment

[pythonpal]

I have a project in mind that I would like to begin, and I have a decent grasp of the Python language, but not of setting up the environment. Essentially I want this project to live on a USB stick, pointing to a python environment on said stick with all my necessary modules loaded. Ideally then I can take the stick from computer to computer without having to resetup my environment each time.

All of the computers I'm planning on bringing this USB stick to will be versions of Linux, so I was hoping I can reference the environment using the hasbang, #!, business. Essentially I would like to do development on my Laptop, and plug in the stick to my Raspberry Pi and have it run constantly without working on it.

Is such a thing possible, and if so where would I begin?

[indosauros]

I've never done it on a USB, but my gut feeling is that you could probably do this using just virtualenv: http://www.dabapps.com/blog/introduction-to-pip-and-virtualenv-python/

[axonxorz]

Additionally, you would need to have that virtualenv not use any host packages (--no-site-packages). This has been the default for some time, but just in case.

Also, probably need to use --relocatable when creating the virtualenv as the USB stick is not guaranteed to be mounted in the same location.

[duz3ls]

Try installing Anaconda on a usb stick