[python-win32] Creating a self-contained MSI or self-extracting installation executable

[Nivth Ket]

Shiram Karra, I am in no way experienced, but I do believe that pywin32
would not help with the first or second. In my opinion and experience, the
easiest way to make the exe would be py2exe, and you should look to NSIS
for making your installeer, as NSIS is fairly easy to use.
Hoping I helped, Ninth.

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:29 AM, Sriram Karra <karra.etc at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am working on a web application based on tornado and sqlalchemy that I
> want to distribute to Windows users so they can install and uninstall with
> zero pain  and execute the program without needing to install anything else
> (including python or pywin32). After a bit of research it appears like
> there would be 2 distinct and perhaps totally unrelated parts of the
> problem:
>
> 1. Using something like py2exe or pyinstaller to create a standalone
> executable
> 2. Bundling it into a MSI or EXE - perhaps with the help of pywin32
>
> Now my questions:
>
> First, is it correct that pywin32 has nothing to offer for Step 1?
>
> Second, is it correct that I could, theoretically use pywin32 fo Step 2?
> If yes, where should I start?
>
> Cheers
>
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