On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Wojtek Mamrak <tacyt1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe I am missing the point, but I think I am not able to do this. > When I remove the "Lib" folder and try to run Python.exe, the python > console window closes rapidly, so that it is hard to read any message > displayed in it and obvioulsy I can't run any python command. Could > you clarify this please?
Darn, it worked for me in Python 2.5: C:\Python25>python 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.path.append(r'C:\Python25\lib.zip') >>> import site Although I am also seeing the issue with sys.prefix not getting set and site-packages not getting added. But in Python 2.7 I just get: C:\Python27>python ImportError: No module named site C:\Python27> And in Python 3.2 it causes a full-on crash: C:\Python32>python Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: unable to load the file system codec LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. >> What if you put the zip file in your >> PYTHONPATH environment variable? > > I don't have it defined. Maybe it is because I have 2 different Python > interpreters installed. > After adding the PYTHONPATH, the Python.exe seems to run normally. > Unfortunately I am not able to import Image module (I am using it), > which is installed in site-packages/PIL. > This happens, because for some reason the site-packages directory is > not present in sys.path. After reading the site module description I > checked the sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix, which are both empty, when > the Lib folder is loaded from the zip archive. Thats why site-packages > is not added to sys.path. > Of course I can add site-packages directory to the sys.path by myself > (yet I don't know why sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are empty), > however how to deal with the PYTHONPATH, which is required to load > site.py and hence has to be defined at the very beginning? Are you calling Py_SetProgramName? That may help to set sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix. However, looking at site.py, it appears that it's only looking for proper directories. I don't think it will be able to add a site-packages inside a zip archive at all; you will just have to add that yourself. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list