On Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 8:35:50 PM UTC-5, Alan Meyer wrote: > I work on an application that uses the ActivePython compilation of > Python from ActiveState. It uses three Microsoft COM libraries that are > needed for talking to SQL Server. The libraries are: > > Microsoft Activex Data Objects > Microsoft Activex Data Objects Recordset > Microsoft ADO Ext > > In the past, we have installed those libraries on numerous machines by > running makepy.py. It can be done from the ActivePython IDLE GUI, or > from the command line. makepy.py downloads and installs the packages > for us, taking care of COM server or client registration, or whatever it > is that has to be done (I don't really know much about this stuff.) > > Now I've been asked to port the application to a computer that is not > connected to the Internet. I haven't found any way to get those > packages. I haven't found a way to, for example, download the packages > to files, place the files on the target computer, and run makepy.py or a > setup.py to install them. > > Can someone suggest a way to do it? > > Thank you very much. > > Alan
I don't think makepy.py needs to download anything. It's just extracting information from the registry about COM services which are available and building a Python wrapper around those services. I've used it successfully myself on a machine completely cut off from the outside world. Cheers, Bob -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
