Dev-Picayune

Apparently, when using Python 2.4 and py2exe, the executables created by this newer version of py2exe are dependent on msvcr71.dll — a Microsoft created .dll that some feel is not entirely distributable without a Visual Studio license. Luckily, I have a Visual Studio license, so I was able to distribute it. Looking at my machine, I also noticed that Office 2003, MS SQL DE, and a few other pieces of software are apt to install this, so chances are moderately good that someone will already have this on their machine. But I do find it unfortunate that Python can’t be compiled more independent of Microsoft related stuff.