Is there a way to tell pywin32_postinstall.exe not to try to install shortcuts, etc.?

[stevecj]

I'm building a standalone Python installation to be distributed with an application. It would be helpful to be able to runpywin32_postinstall.exe and not have it try to create shortcuts, but I haven't found a way to do that. Is there a way?

Additionally, I see failure to register sample COM objects and successful registration of a help file and registering of Pythonwin in the context menu. All of those things are undesirable in this case, but I do need to run the script in order to have imports work.

[mhammond]

There's not, but that script does already parse args, so I'd be more than happy to accept a patch which does this.

[stevecj]

@mhammond Do you have an opinion about what option(s) should be added for this purpose?

[mhammond]

I guess you don't want any stuff registered such as pythonwin or COM objects? It looks like we support only options with a single dash, so maybe 2 options -no-shell-integration (for all shortcuts and file associations etc) and -no-com-objects to avoid the demo COM object registration? Open to other ideas, including more options, so -no-shortcuts, -no-register-pythonwin etc.