python scripts to standalone executable

[Mike Driscoll]

On Mar 31, 4:53 pm, Amit Gupta <emaila... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 31, 1:52 pm, Mike Driscoll <kyoso... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > What about creating a setup.py and using the distutils command to
> > build rpms or tarballs?
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> >http://docs.python.org/dist/built-dist.html
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> > Mike
>
> My quick look: The link you sent is under the header "Distributing
> Python Modules". In my case, I have set of python-files that
> altogether is part of one product-functionality. I would like to
> package it and have it run standalone, even if the user does not have
> python installed.

Good point. I guess I missed the "one product-functionality"
requirement in your original post. Sorry for the noise!

>
> Ok, I guess build-dist can possibly achieve the same purpose (without
> reading through the link you sent).  So my question would be: why is
> there pyinstaller, if this does the job. Is build-dist more low-level
> and thus is over-kill for the kind of application I am looking for?:
>
> Thanks

PyInstaller is for converting something you've written in Python into
a binary for various OS's. When I read through the thread though, I
thought your requirements might include distributing the modules as
source too.

If you want to produce a binary for Macs, I've heard that py2app does
the job: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/py2app/

There's also cx_freeze, which is different than freeze.py:
http://www.cxtools.net/default.aspx?nav=cxfrlb

The last one is probably the best new advice I have to offer.

Mike