py to exe: suggestions?

gene tani gene.tani at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 08:16:43 EDT 2005


There's movpy, w/option to exclude Unicode/win98 capabilities:

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/movpy/

Also:

http://www.effbot.org/zone/exemaker.htm
http://www.python.org/doc/current/dist/postinstallation-script.html
http://www.jython.org/docs/differences.html

Ben Finney wrote:
> chris patton <chrispatton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I need to convert a python file to an '.exe'.
>
> A Python program is executable only in the context of a Python
> interpreter. Python is a dynamic language; it can't be compiled to
> native machine code.
>
> > I've tried py2exe, and I don't like it because you have to include
> > that huge dll and libraries.
>
> That's the Python interpreter environment, and the standard Python
> library that is made available in the Python environment. Without
> them, your program isn't executable.
>
> What were you hoping for?
>
> --
>  \       "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting |
>   `\   them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good |
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> Ben Finney




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