Wrote a simple Python script that makes life a wee bit easier when using py2exe:

Also available at http://premshree.resource-locator.com/python/makeExe.py

""" makeExe.py - Simple Python script to automate the creation of Python executables using py2exe.

(c) 2004 Premshree Pillai (24/01/04) http://www.qiksearch.com/ """

## Run this file from Python root dir

import sys import re

fileName = raw_input("Enter file name (rel or abs path, eg., python/file.py): ")

package = re.split(":",fileName) package = re.split("/",package[len(package) - 1]) package = re.split(".py",package[len(package) - 1]) package = package[0]

fp = open("setup.py","w") temp = """from distutils.core import setup import py2exe setup(name = "%s", scripts = ["%s"], )""" % (package,fileName) fp.write(temp) fp.close()

sys.argv.append("py2exe") execfile("setup.py")

fp = open("setup.py","w") temp = "" fp.write(temp) fp.close()

print "\n", "Executable created!" print "Press <enter> to exit..." if(raw_input()): exit

===== -Premshree [http://www.qiksearch.com/]

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