

add context menu entries Edit with IDLE and Edit with Spyder for.register Python icons in Windows explorer.Registering your WinPython installation will: The WinPython Control Panel allows to register your WinPython distribution to Windows. This is the default behavior but it can be changed by simply removing the \settings folder, forcing WinPython to use the user profile directory instead. C:\Users\username), hence allowing to move your settings with your favorite distribution, in a portable way. WinPython32-3.7.1.0Zero.exe /VERYSILENT /DIR=Z:\WPy-3710Īll installed Python packages store their settings in \settings instead of a user profile directory (e.g.

"/S" for silent install and "/D" for final Directory until october 2018 (NullSoft installer), "/VERYSILENT" for silent install and "/DIR" for final Directory after october 2018 (Inno Setup installer), "-o C:\put-it-there -y" for silent install in final Directory "C:\put-it-there" after january 2019 (7-zip auto-installer) To install in terms of register your distribution in the system, see the section Registration on this page.Īs (currently) a 7-Zip installer, you can uncompress it via command line, with options: InstallationĪs WinPython is a portable distribution, the installer only copies compressed files to the specified destination directory. You can reduce the wasted slack space by reformatting your flash drive with smaller clusters. USB drives or SD cards with ExFAT and 128KB clusters, which is the default for >=32GB drives). 7 GB, and it installs roughly 3 GB of files.īecause this includes tens of thousands of small files, WinPython may require over 10 GB additional space if installed on a drive with a large cluster size (e.g.
