#🔒 A portable python installation for both Windows and Mac

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visual fog
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Hi all, I'm working on developing a club at my school, and we want to let the students run python on the devices we provide (which get wiped every use). The solution I've came up with is the use USBs as a portable environment for students to code in, but some students want to take it home to use Mac as well, thus the cross-platform.
If I were to do that, would I install both installations onto the USB, or is there a universal one I don't know about? Thank you!

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visual fog
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I also saw something online called pyinstaller. Is this the fix to what I am looking for?

whole zodiac
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you want to keep interpreter and deps in the usb drive?

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then there may not have a univeral solution for win and mac

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usually we use a package manager like uv to manage dependancies, and on each platform, package manager will install deps for us

stuck jolt
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but, can they just install python on their home machines?

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or is that a little out of expectations?

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marsh otter
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If you contact your network administrator at the school they might be able to help you with keeping python installed on machines

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Probably whatever IDE youre using as well

stuck jolt
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I would assume they'll just use IDLE as it comes with python

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visual fog
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alright thanks everyone for your responses!

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I'll check these out

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