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What are Windows embeddable packages used for?

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by: FromTheRafters - Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:48 UTC

What are Windows embeddable packages used for?

If you go to the Windows for Python installation page
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3105/

You see these "embeddable packages".
Windows embeddable package (32-bit) 7596969 bytes
Windows embeddable package (64-bit) 8558134 bytes
Windows help file 9319556 bytes
Windows installer (32-bit) 27478768 bytes
Windows installer (64-bit) Recommended 28637720 bytes

What's a Windows embeddable?

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by: Andy Burns - Thu, 14 Jul 2022 15:56 UTC

FromTheRafters wrote:

> If you go to the Windows for Python installation page
> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3105/
>
> You see these "embeddable packages".

presumably that if someone develops an application in python, they can
distribute the python runtime as part of the app's installer, rather than
requiring a user to know how/where too get it from?

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by: VanguardLH - Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:06 UTC

FromTheRafters <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

> If you go to the Windows for Python installation page
> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3105/
>
> You see these "embeddable packages".
> Windows embeddable package (32-bit) 7596969 bytes
> Windows embeddable package (64-bit) 8558134 bytes
> Windows help file 9319556 bytes
> Windows installer (32-bit) 27478768 bytes
> Windows installer (64-bit) Recommended 28637720 bytes
>
> What's a Windows embeddable?

https://docs.python.org/3/extending/index.html

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by: ...winston - Fri, 15 Jul 2022 04:31 UTC

FromTheRafters wrote:
> What are Windows embeddable packages used for?
>
> If you go to the Windows for Python installation page
> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3105/
>
> You see these "embeddable packages". Windows embeddable package (32-bit)
> 7596969 bytes
> Windows embeddable package (64-bit) 8558134 bytes
> Windows help file 9319556 bytes
> Windows installer (32-bit) 27478768 bytes
> Windows installer (64-bit) Recommended 28637720 bytes
>
> What's a Windows embeddable?

A Windows embeddable(for Python) makes it easier for those who want to
distribute Python-based programs or embed Python into their application.

This might be of help
<https://dev.to/fpim/setting-up-python-s-windows-embeddable-distribution-properly-1081>

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Subject	Author
What are Windows embeddable packages used for?	FromTheRafters
Re: What are Windows embeddable packages used for?	Andy Burns
Re: What are Windows embeddable packages used for?	VanguardLH
Re: What are Windows embeddable packages used for?	...winston