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Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 14:49:13 +0200
From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@v.loewis.de>
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> I have vague recollections that pythonXY.dll could not be statically
> linked on Windows, or that doing so causes some serious loss of
> functionality.  Was this ever true, and is it still?

You'll have to rebuild Python to make use of static linkage, of course,
but then: it is certainly possible. The main functionality that you
lose is the ability to load extension modules (.pyd files). Whether
that's a serious loss or not depends on your application - in cases
where you want static linkage, you can often accept not being able
to do dynamic linkage.

Regards,
Martin