101 Ways of distributing python programs?

[David Eppstein]

In article <7h3k7cws79g.fsf at pc150.maths.bris.ac.uk>,
 Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote:

> "Andreas KLostermann" <bluetigger at web.de> writes:
> 
> > I know that there are ways to produce windows and linux executables
> > out of arbitrary Python programs. For Mac I am not sure at all.
> 
> There are ways for the Mac, but I'm not too familiar with them.

PyObjC comes with ProjectBuilder templates for making standalone OS X 
applications using Apple's Cocoa toolkit for fully native user 
interfaces.  These can use the built in OS X command line python 
(requires X.2 or later) or you could package up a different python 
version with your application.

MacPython supposedly has or had the ability to make standalones, for OS 
9 as well as OS X, but I was never able to get it to work.  Several UI 
packages are available including tkInter (never worked well for me) and 
W (Just vR's package, not cross-platform, but works well enough).  It 
also can produce "applets", much smaller executables that need MacPython 
to be installed on the target computer.

If you just want a command-line executable without a GUI, OS X.2 has 
python 2.2 installed, and is no different from other unix versions.

-- 
David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science