Portable Thonny on a flash-stick

[Aivar Annamaa]

Hi everyone!

Some people have asked me how to create a portable version of Thonny which can be stored in a USB stick and which keeps configuration files and virtual environment together with program files.

I wrote a short guide for this: https://bitbucket.org/plas/thonny/wiki/PortableVersion

best regards,
Aivar

[Didier Dorange-Pattoret]

Hi everyone !

I tried to create a portable version as recommanded with a customize.py file in the good location.
But, if a plug my usb drive in another computer and launch Thonny, I get a message : "you'll using another interpreter etc ...".
In that case, all packages are lost (numpy, matplotlib, etc ...).

I tried too with a configuration.ini file in user_dir_template like explained here : https://bitbucket.org/plas/thonny/issues/280/increase-portability-of-thonny but without success.

Is there any way to get a real portable thonny ie witch keeps packages when the computer is changed ?

Thanks for Thonny and your help.

Didier.

[Aivar Annamaa]

Hi!

Looks like I forgot the fact that virtual environment (which Thonny uses by default) operates with absolute paths.

I created an issue on Bitbucket for making a portable and/or centrally installable version of Thonny. It already has great discussion going on, so I invite everyone interested to join: https://bitbucket.org/plas/thonny/issues/346/create-and-publish-a-portable-windows

best regards,
Aivar

[Didier Dorange-Pattoret]

Thank you for your help.

I joined this discussion.

Thanks for Tonny.

Le mercredi 30 août 2017 10:01:14 UTC+2, Aivar Annamaa a écrit :

[David Phillips]

since the school that I work at can't seem to install python, I simply used my usb drive as the install directory and copied and pasted the resulting folder into the student#s shared area. Whenever anyone loads thonny it loads the last saved file, Is this what you wanted? If so, it seems to be happening by default :)

[Aivar Annamaa]

The name of the last used file is saved into per-user configuration file. If your students use same user account, then this behavior is expected.

best regards,
Aivar