[python-win32] Compiling a Python Windows application

[James Matthews]

Try pypy

On 11/24/06, Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
>
> Bokverket wrote:
> > I wrote:
> >
> > If you don't want to distribute the Python interpreter along with your
> app,
> > Is there a well-working way of compiling/byte-coding/whatever a Python
> app
> > and call it from within Microsoft Word? What run-time is needed?
> >
> > Tim replied:
> > The Python interpreter *is* the run-time.  You need to deploy the
> > interpreter in order to run Python scripts.  Packages like py2exe allow
> > you to that in a way that is largely transparent to the end user.
> >
> >
> > Thanks Tim for your answer, what about reaching Python from within Word?
> > What I would like is a new menu in Word, clicking on a menu item would
> bring
> > up a dialog box where the user sets some parameters , clicking OK is to
> > start the Python app.   The open Word document and the parameters need
> to be
> > made available to the app.
> >
> > Do I have to go through Visual Basic macros to do this
> One does Word automation using VB. AFAIK there is no other way.
> We can help guide you thru the steps (this is how I would do it):
> - create UserForm(s) to collect parameters
> - create a custom menu using Tools -> Customize with each item tied to a
> macro
> Each macro would open a userform. The click event of the OK button on
> the UserForm would shell Python.
>
> A slight alternative would be to have the macros call Windows Scripting
> Host files that would present the dialog and shell Python.
>
> A bigger alternative would be to have the macros shell Python and write
> the parameter collecting mechanism in Python.
>
> > or is there a _good_ way?!
> I take it that you don't enjoy VB programming. It certainly is more
> wordy and less flexible than Python, but for relatively small tasks like
> this not a big deal. I've written 10s of thousands of lines of VBA for
> Word and Access. Of course I prefer Python when I can use it.
>
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