If you just want to run python scripts in those machines (not developing
in it), you can use something like py2exe [
http://www.py2exe.org/].
That doesn't answer the question.
Snorble might use "ORCA", a MSI editor from Microsoft.
http://forums.frontmotion.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=837
discusses a similar question for Firefox.
I haven't tried it myself, but would give it a try.
Thank you! I got it working using Orca. Initially I had removed all of
the rows from the Shortcut table and saved the .msi file, but the
resulting .msi file was only about 600 KB (the original .msi file is
about 15 MB). I had to create a .mst transform file, and that allows
Python to install without any Start Menu entries.
For reference, here's what I did. I opened the python-2.7.2.msi file
in Orca, then click the Transform menu, then New Transform. Then go to
the Shortcut table and highlight all of the entries and press the
Delete key, and acknowledge that it will delete all of the rows. Then
click the Transform menu and click Generate Transform and save it
(python-2.7.2-no-icons.mst in my case).
Once you have the .mst file, you can install it from the command line:
msiexec /i python-2.7.2.msi TRANSFORMS=python-2.7.2-no-icons.mst
Or to silently install:
msiexec /qn /i python-2.7.2.msi TRANSFORMS=python-2.7.2-no-icons.mst