Is it possible to download packages for Win32 in zip format?

Everything seems to be only available in self-extracting .exe. My company blocks executable files from being downloa开发者_如何学Cded.

Pretty close. Download the source - a .tar.gz archive, so you need something beyond window's built-in zip handling to unpack it - and run python setup.py install.

You could try to "easy-install" the package

The self-extracting exe is only necessary if the package contains C-code that needs to be compiled, and you don't have a compiler. Otherwise you can use the source package, which often is a tgz.

If it's a "self-extracting" zip file you can just change the .exe extension to .zip and then unzip it with any standard zip file handling utility...assuming you can at least download .exe files. If you can't, you might be able to rename them during the download process (i.e. via a "Save As" dialog).