BaseException has been deprecated as of Python 2.6. So if you have something like this in your code …
try: doSomethingStupid() except MyException, e: print e.message
… you will run in some warnings. This is a quick way to fix those problems:
try: doSomethingStupid() except MyException, e: print str(e)
You are looking for a Python version to run from your USB drive? Then relax and head right over to python.org! They provide up-to-date versions of Portable Python. Even more, they bundle all the plugins you will need on Windows:
* Django-1.0.2-final
* IPython-0.9.1
* PIL-1.1.6
* Py2exe-0.6.9
* PyGame-1.8.1
* PyReadline-1.5
* PyScripter v1.9.9.6
* PyWin32-212
* Rpyc-2.60
* SPE-0.8.4.c
* wxPython-unicode-2.8.9.1
Ok, nearly all the plugins you will need 
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