Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> added the comment:

So for a manually managed install, your best bet is to just copy the install 
directory somewhere else (and then maybe remove the original? Up to you). That 
will break the MSI tracking that lets us do reliable upgrades and repairs, but 
shouldn't break Python itself.

If you're planning to include it in another application, you may want to look 
at the embeddable distro, which is reduced in size/scope for this purpose (it 
generally also requires a regular install for build/pip installs).

Basic levels of fiddling can also be avoided by using virtual environments. 
Nothing much we can do will protect against really dedicated (or malicious) 
fiddling, but using the MSI installs we have means that a repair should quickly 
fix it up.

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