How does one distribute Tkinter or Qt GUI apps Developed in Python

[Christian Gollwitzer]

Am 17.12.15 um 01:03 schrieb Bruce Whealton:
> I watched one training video that discussed Python and Tkinter. Like many similar tutorials from online training sites, I was left scratching my head.
>
> What seems to be blatantly missing is how this would be distributed. In the first mentioned tutorial from Lynda.com the Tkinter app was related to a web page. However, the browser cannot run Python Bytecode or Python Scripts.
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> Surely, one is going to want to create GUI apps for users that are not Python Developers. I would not think to ask someone to install Python on their system and make sure it is added to the path. Maybe it is not so hard for the non-technical, average users.
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> I would want to package in some way so that when launched, it installs whatever is needed on the end user's computer. How is this done?
> Are there common practices for this?
> Thanks,
> Bruce
>
On option is pyinstaller or py2exe, which converts a Python script + 
dependencies into a single file (single directory) executable. Sometimes 
you must give them hints what to include, but in general it works well. 
It may create very large packages (if you include 
numpy/scipy/matplotlib, you'll end up with ~60 MB)

	Christian