[Python-Dev] Windows registry path not ignored with Py_IgnoreEnvironmentFlag set (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Jun 5 20:51:38 CEST 2010


On 6/5/2010 10:55 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I don't object (this had never occurred to me), but is Python on Windows fully functioning when the registry is entirely ignored?

There have been a couple of portable CPython-on-a-CD or memory stick that supposedly run on any machine without 'installation' (writing to the registry), so they must run without reading anything Python specific.



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