May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 37m
English
The embedded distribution of Python is a zipfile that holds a minimal Python interpreter. Its purpose is to provide a Python environment for other programs, rather than being used directly by end users.
When extracted from the zipfile, the environment is essentially isolated from the underlying OS, that is, the Python environment is self-contained. The standard library is pre-compiled into bytecode and all Python-related .exe and .dll files are included. However, pip, documentation files and the Tcl/tk environment are not included. Because Tcl/tk is not available, the IDLE development environment and associated Tkinter files are not available for use.
In addition, the Microsoft C runtime is not included ...