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[David Porter]

* Daniel Yoo <dyoo@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Matthews James wrote:
> 
> > but anyways i was wonder if any of you could write it so that it is
> > excutable with out python right now it only can run through python
> 
> Yes, there's a way to make it executable.  You'll want to look at:
> 
>     http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/install1.html
> 
> and I think there's supposed be an easier-to-use program that lets you
> package Python programs too... but I can't remember the name off the top
> of my head.  Can someone clarify?

http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/


> > and i was wanting to learn how to run it in a window
> > with buttons and a display, stuff like that
> 
> Sure; this sounds like a job for the Tkinter library.  You'll need to get
> the basics of Python down, but after that: there's a graphics library
> called Tkinter that makes it easy to make buttons, text fields, and other
> stuff. <...>

Note that Tkinter scripts are not currently supported by py2exe, though they
are by McMillan's installer.