From: zope-bounces@zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org] On Behalf Of Tino Wildenhain Am Mittwoch, den 17.11.2004, 14:31 -0500 schrieb Will Smith:

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I need to run zope on windows. The binary installs fine, but it creates its own installation of python. What is the best method to install python packages to zope's python installation.

Currently, I have Zope-2.7.2 and python 2.3.3 installed. I have been using windows installers to install packages (dav, libxml2, mx, python-mysql) into my dedicated python installation. I tried hacking around in the registry to get the installers to see Zopes python, but no luck :(. At this point I have been just copying the files from my dedicated python/site-packages directory over to my zope-python/site-packages directory.

You can use system python (if same version) with Zope very well. Just change the occurences of python.exe to your system python. Another trick would be to install Zope and then install a windows python over it.

I was able to do this by changing the name of the Zope python installation to match a corresponding regular python installation (temporarily rename it first), then changing the name back afterwards. This fools the package installers, at least the ones that check the Windows registry for the python location. However, in many cases you only need to copy the directories that were installed in some other python installation - but make SURE to delete all *.pyc and *.pyo files when you do that, since they seem to contain path information that will now be wrong. You may also need to get the new locations into the python path, and the easiest way to do that is to put them into a .pth file. Put the file into the same directory as the Zope python executable. Cheers, Tom P