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

[jkreps at rev.state.ne.us]

                      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.

Hi Doc,
Py2exe does that task admirably.  Do any of your "small utilities and
scripts" contain GUI interfaces and/or connections to database backends
that require pre-installed client services and/or logins to pre-existing
accounts?