Converting a simple python script to a simple windows executable

Gerry gerard.blais at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 07:33:28 EDT 2008


On Jun 12, 4:04 am, William McBrine <wmcbr... at users.sf.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:25:29 -0700, geoffbache wrote:
> > (1) py2exe. This is really for when python isn't installed on the remote
> > user's machine, so it requires you to distribute a large amount of DLLs
> > etc which are part of the python installation. A bit silly when I know
> > that the remote user has python anyway.
>
> If you know the target user has Python installed, why don't you just
> distribute the .pyw file? (Use ".pyw" instead of ".py" to avoid the extra
> console window.)
>
> --
> 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -- pass it on

I really like cx_freeze:

http://python.net/crew/atuining/cx_Freeze/



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