Portable or not...

Well for some time now I'm using some portable applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim, etc...) and when I started to play around with Django I noticed question on one of the Django mailing lists about making Django development portable and can it be done with Movable Python. It sounded quite interesting to me too but when I saw that you can get Movable Python only after you PAY I started to think how to make "Django on a (USB) stick".

After few tests I realized that it is not that difficult to make Python portable so I started thinking why not go all the way and make "Python on a stick" and that is how that idea was born. All the rest was a bit Python programming to create portable script runner application and to configure my favorite Python editor SciTE to run from portable device and to use Portable Python.

Status

Portable Python is beta software and it will probably always be beta software. Right now it supports three versions of Python 2.5.4, 2.6.1 and 3.0.1 and lots of packages. SPE and PyScripter are also included as they are right now best free editors for Python scripts. They include code hightlighting, code completion, remote/local debugging, script execution with or without parameters etc etc.

Python script runner script which was included in the first release is removed since editors included in this release offer much more flexible and powerful ways to run/debug Python scripts.

Contact

I'm always open for all ideas and suggestions and please even if you have a smallest idea which can help, send it to me. I'm also working on second version of this website which will offer more options for collaboration, comments and suggestions. My e-mail address is perica.zivkovic[NO-SPAM]@gmail.com and I will do my best to answer all your e-mails as soon as possible. You know what you should do with no-spam part in my e-mail? ;-)