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Portable Python is a Python® programming language pre-configured to run directly from any USB storage device, local or network location enabling you to have, at any time, a portable programming environment.

Portable Python build scripts are licensed under MIT license, other third party tools and packages are licensed by their respecitive projects/owners.

Portable Python build scripts can be invoked from any MS Windows command prompt by using build command and specifying version to be created, e.g.:

build 2.7

will download all components needed for building Portable Python based on the Python 2.7, unpack all packages to current user temp folder and create final installer.

Configuration settings are specified per version, in this case settings.bat will be used in 2.7 folder.

Other version specific files:

• descriptions.nsh - language strings per package needed for installer creation
• modules.bat - list of modules to be included and their specific rules for unpackaging/configuration
• modules.nsh - NSIS installer configuration
• settings.bat - list of modules to be included and their download locations