portable python/kivy environment

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I am not sure if anyone is interested but since I liked the portable version of Kivy for Windows (i believe from 1.9.0 and previous) I looked into a similar environment where kivy can be installed into a stand-alone python distribution and not affect my default python installed to Windows.

For those that want a similar setup you can use WinPython to get the portable installation then use pip from this standalone distro to install the Kivy packages.

 - For the WinPython I used: the download from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/winpython/files/WinPython_2.7/2.7.10.3/

 - then followed the kivy install instructions within the 'WinPython Command Prompt' using the 'python -m pip install ...' instructions from here: https://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation-windows.html

  (I did have to do the 'python -m pip install docutils ...' step twice as the first time it gave a permissions error, which is odd because installing into WinPython should not require admin access, but a second attempt worked fine and Kivy (1.9.1) ran just great after that.)

Note that the WinPython distro is quite nice as it includes scientific packages such as numpy, matlplotlib, etc. as well as pywin32 and pyaudio and even Qt w/ Spyder (plus others). Having these packages along with Kivy installed makes for a really nice portable distribution.  And you can copy.move the entire 'WinPython-...' folder to anywhere, even on an external drive or usb stick, and run it from there with all the installed packages without having to register it with Wnidows or affect any default python installs you may have.

[Michael K.]

Thanks a lot; that's what i've been looking for!!