[python-win32] Re: Found how to use TLBs with py2exe,

[Leighton Pritchard]

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| Py2exe is a very neat tool but in certain circumstances it is not helpful.
| For example:  you have developed an Python based app that connects to an
| Oracle backend via ODBC.   Using py2exe works well to create a Windows
| executable, but the IT department needs to install [...] so Python can be
| just one more.  Py2exe is, however, a very nice way to insure that the user
| does not have the ability to edit *.py files by allowing Python NOT to be
| installed. JLK

Speaking from my own experience, many of the small utilities and scripts I
write in Python for the biologists in our group have to be run on Windows, as
the IT policy at our institute isn't exactly *nix-friendly for 'ordinary'
users.  Python is not installed on machines as they come, nor would it be
likely that IT would take it upon themselves to keep workstations up-to-date
with the latest modules and libraries (e.g. BioPython) that I need to use.
Py2exe is invaluable to me in distributing the code that I write and making it
usable amongst the less computer-literate in the institute.

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Dr Leighton Pritchard AMRSC
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Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, Scotland, UK
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