Kivy development environment on Windows 7

Question

I need to ask a question on how to set a development environment for Kivy under Windows 7. Normally i work with Kivy on Linux, but i need to develop an application for a client who uses Windows. From the Kivy documents, there are two alternatives:

1- Download and Unzip the file containing the Kivy environment plus the Python interpreter with it. I have concerns here. Will this damage my existing Python environment (2.7)? if not is it sand boxed well? Plus if i need to add other third party libraries (ex : pyodbc to run on a Kivy application on a PC) where shall they be installed ?

2- set up Kivy for existing Python environment. Another concern here : is the "unofficial" windows installer a good way to get Kivy running under Windows? and same concerns as above for the Python environment.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

I am using kivy on windows 7 . You can use option 1 . it wont damage your current python 2.7 because you can just change the path of environment to the python interpreter which comes with kivy .

in case you need to turn back to your older python installed just change the environment variables .

Ino order to add third party libraries , most of them are already installed in kivy . for others you can find them on kivy.org :)

If you need to use for example pyQt4 or similar library you need to use different interpreter . I am also doing same stuff .In my case , I use pycharm and keep different configuration (ie python interpreter) for different programs .