Thanks Geremy :) The majority of installed files (56MB of data) reside in /lib/ python2.6/. So far, I took these steps to make it as compact as possible: 1. I deleted /lib/python2.6/test directory. This reduced the size by 20MB. 2. I deleted .py files (cause the corresponding pyc ones are there). This reduced the size by 9MB. 3. I deleted the /lib/libpython2.6.a which was 6MB. * By far the python runs flawlessly.
4. I zip up the /lib/python2.6/ as python26.zip and place it in the / lib/ directory. Then I delete the /lib/python2.6/ directory. By running python, I get this output, though /lib/python26.zip is in the sys.path variable. n...@nima-desktop:~/py$ ./bin/python Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, May 17 2010, 18:36:54) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', '/home/nima/py/lib/python26.zip', '/home/nima/py/lib/python2.6/', '/home/nima/py/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/home/nima/py/lib/ python2.6/lib-tk', '/home/nima/py/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/home/nima/ py/lib/lib-dynload'] On May 17, 9:00 pm, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not an expert, but there are probably a large-ish number of modules > you could remove without much sacrifice on your part. Looking at the > module list and just picking the platform-dependent ones: > > * _winreg > * aepack > * aetools > * aetypes > * AL > * al > * applesingle > * autoGIL > * buildtools > * Carbon > * cd > * cfmfile > * chunk > * colorpicker > * etc > * etc > * etc > > You could also probably remove things like 2to3, tabnanny, etc, > and I doubt tkinter is doing you much good. > > I also recall someone at pycon talking about importing modules > from a .zip archive. I'm not sure how easy/hard that is, but you > may want to look at PEP 302. > > Geremy Condra Yours sincerely, Nima Mohammadi -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
