[Tutor] mac os x executable

[wesley chun]

>> >I'm having trouble finding good tutorials on creating standalone
>> > executable
>> >files for mac os x.. I've been looking at 'py2app', [...]


pete,

welcome to Python!  in order for all to answer your question more
appropriately, you'll have to describe the problem in slightly more
detail.

what do you mean when you say "standalone executable?" the reason why
i ask is because a tool like py2app -- the equivalent to py2exe on PCs
-- is meant to be used in situations where you're installing the
application on a Mac which you're not sure whether Python is installed
on it and/or to bundle up your code in a way that's harder to reverse
engineer than a plain text .py file.

bill's suggestion comes from the fact that pretty much all Macs these
days come with Python installed and all you would need to do is to
just make your .py file executable, hence the "chmod +x
YOUR_MODULE.py" so that you can run YOUR_MODULE.py directly from the
shell instead of having to prepend it, i.e, "python YOUR_MODULE.py".

in your example above, you have both mypython.py and app_test.py --
you need to make sure that you: 1) use the same name (which is why i
changed them to YOUR_MODULE.py meaning substitute in the actual
filename in place of "YOUR_MODULE" and 2) that the directory that your
script is in is also in your PATH environment variable -- otherwise
you would need to do ./YOUR_MODULE.py if your shell is in the same
directory as your file.

hope this helps!
-- wesley
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