Distributing Python Code

[Nick Trout]

> Depending on how many files you're talking about, and how they're
currently
> packaged, you may want to consider using the Distutils package (a standard
> part of Python as of Python-1.6). It will build zip files or Windows
> installers for Windows, gzipped tar files under Unix (which is basically
the
> standard there). It will also install the files to the "right place" on
the
> installation platform, which is a nice plus.
>
> For more information, see this introduction:
>
>     http://www.python.org/doc/current/dist/dist.html
>
> Hope this helps,

That looks great, I was considering writing a python module to zip my files
into a python file which would self extract but by the look of it distutils
goes one step further.

Cheers,
Nick.