[Python-Dev] Single-file Python executables (was: Computed Goto dispatch for Python 2) (original) (raw)

Steve Dower Steve.Dower at microsoft.com
Sat May 30 00:33:17 CEST 2015

Paul Moore wrote:

One mildly annoying thing is that python3.dll is only installed in \DLLs, which typically isn't on PATH. So actually using the limited API from your own application fails by default. Fixing that's mostly a user admin issue, though (and you can just link to the full API and avoid the whole problem).

I didn't even notice that 3.4 (and earlier?) were doing that, so I changed/fixed it by accident :)

Python 3.5 installs python3.dll alongside python35.dll, so it'll go into the user's Python directory by default or into the system directory for an all-users installation. The embeddable distro includes python3.dll alongside the other DLLs as well.

Cheers, Steve

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