python is great

[Mike Driscoll]

On Jan 6, 2:24 pm, Joe Strout <j... at strout.net> wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> >> On the Mac in particular, if you want
> >> your app to run on any PowerPC or Intel machine runing 10.4 or later,
> >> and you're using anything not in the standard framework (such as
> >> MySQLdb), it's a bit of a nightmare.
>
> > You're looking for py2app:
>
> >http://undefined.org/python/py2app.html
>
> No, I'm *using* py2app.  I've been trying to use it for a couple of
> weeks now, with the generous help of such people as Robin Dunn, and I
> still don't have it quite working properly.  (I'd be happy to send you
> my notes on what was required to get as far as I've gotten, but it's
> several pages, a bit long to post here.)
>
> (py2exe works a little more easily, thank goodness.)
>
> >> So I would say that Python as a language is great, and its standard
> >> framework is great.  But its (many) IDEs are pretty poor, and the
> >> process of building a polished, packaged app is abysmal.
>
> > It's certainly work, but that's always the case for nicely polished
> > apps :-)
>
> In Python, yes.  :)  Not in all environments.
>
> > For packaging, you can choose from a multitude of installer builders -
> > none of which are really Python specific.
>
> I'm not even talking about that level of packaging -- I'm just talking
> about making something that appears to the user like a normal
> executable, which they can double-click on their system and have it
> actually run, rather than aborting with something unhelpful like "No
> module named MySQLdb".
>
> >> And there are
> >> some things (such as Flash-style web applets) that you still can't do at
> >> all in Python, even after all these years.
>
> > You're looking for Silverlight:
> >http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/silverlight/index.shtml
>
> Maybe.  I'm not a big fan of anything so Microsoftian, but I'll admit
> that this does mostly fit the bill I described above (or has the
> potential to, anyway).
>
> Thanks,
> - Joe

I use Andrea Gavana's GUI2Exe to create my binaries. He recently added
a py2app wrapper to it. I don't have a Mac, so I haven't tested that
part of his app. However, the py2exe portion rocks! I put in the path
to my main Python executable, add any special 3rd party modules and it
just works! I've written a tutorial for the py2exe part of it if
you're interested...

Mike