Creating a standalone application

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <fbdf4a20-1fe2-4c23-9ee2-
c6e739362aa1 at 12g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, Jonathan Hartley wrote:

> On Apr 13, 10:42�pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>
>> In message <kZ4xn.868$I8.... at news.indigo.ie>, Luis Quesada wrote:
>>
>> > I am getting an "expected string without null bytes" error when using
>> > cxfreeze for creating a standalone application (in Linux-Ubuntu).
>>
>> Why bother? Every decent Linux system will have Python available. Why not
>> just distribute it as a script?
> 
> Anything other than a trivial script will have dependencies. These
> might be other Python packages, C-extensions, and other libraries.
> What if your program runs on a version of Python other than the one
> installed on the client's Linux system?

Let the distro maintainers worry about that. They will package your code up 
in the appropriate form, so that the system package manager will 
automatically ensure that the right dependencies are present. Problem 
solved, no need to keep reinventing the wheel.