[TriLUG] Portable Python [ Was Re: booting an external disk with grub 0.97 ]

[Lance A. Brown via TriLUG]

On 2015-04-22 8:24 am, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2015, Lance A. Brown via TriLUG wrote:
> 
>> Call me nuts, but I'm running Python just fine using Portable Python 
>> 2.7.6.1 on my Windows 8.1 Lenovo Carbon X1.  Even comes with PyCharm 
>> and most useful python modules preinstalled.  Is there a specific 
>> reason to run linux?
>> 
>> http://portablepython.com/
> 
> OK have it installed on a flash drive. I tried a one liner
> 
> print "hello world"
> 
> and ran it in a DOS box according to
> 
> http://portablepython.com/doc/2.7/hello-world/
> 
> using the command (approximately)
> 
> e:\portable_python\portable_python.exe hello_world.py

Try:

e:\portable_python\App\python.exe hello_world.py

I can't guarantee this will work properly for everything, but I was able 
to get the output in my current command window using it.

--[Lance]