[New-bugs-announce] [issue28247] Add an option to zipapp to produce a Windows executable

[Paul Moore]

New submission from Paul Moore:

The zipapp module allows users to bundle their application as a single file "executable". On Windows, the file is given a ".pyz" extension which is associated with the Python launcher. However, this approach is not always equivalent to a native executable (see http://paul-moores-notes.readthedocs.io/en/latest/wrappers.html for more details).

I suggest adding an option to zipapp that prepends a small executable to the zipapp that uses the Python C API to launch the application. A prototype implementation (zastub) is available at https://github.com/pfmoore/pylaunch.

If this seems reasonable, I'll work up a full patch.

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assignee: paul.moore
components: Library (Lib), Windows
messages: 277224
nosy: paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Add an option to zipapp to produce a Windows executable
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.7

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