How to run python without python

[David Cournapeau]

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:09 AM, danmcleran at yahoo.com
> <danmcleran at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 1, 5:54 pm, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Krister Svanlund
>>> <krister.svanl... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Spencer <Infotech... at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>>> >> Is there a way to developing a script on linux and give it
>>> >> to someone on microsoft, so that they could run it on microsoft
>>> >> without installing python?
> <snip>
>>> one can't generate such a standalone executable for a different
>>> operating system from that which one's computer runs.
>>
>> that's not entirely true. i just built a standalone exe for win 7 from
>> my win xp machine.
>
> s/operating system/platform
>
> Good luck getting PyInstaller to output for Windows when being run on
> a *nix box.

Doesn't py2exe works under wine ? I have had great success building
windows installers on linux through wine (although not with py2exe),

cheers,

David