Standalone Python Programs...

[Larry Bates]

I've found that py2exe and Inno Setup Installeer to be a good
combination (for Windows).  It isn't a single executable, but
then what modern program is any more.  It doesn't require
distribution/installation of Python.  I've used it to install
some pretty complex combinations (wxWindows, PIL, ReportLab,
etc.) with no problems.  Inno Setup has proven to be flexible
enough to install everything that I've done so far.

I can't speak to Linux installations because I have always
just used the Python installation already there.

HTH,
Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.

"uri bushey" <urbushey at sas.upenn.edu> wrote in message
news:ceugpq$35rs$1 at netnews.upenn.edu...
> I have a Python program that is built on an infrastructure of quite a
> few other programs, but I would like to create a standalone nonetheless.
>
> It doesn't necesarily have to be its own executable, although this is
> the most attractive option - it could just mean distributing the entire
> python distribution with it in an installer or something.
>
> However, here is what I have called in my python file:
> Tkinter, and multiple Pmw widgets
> WaveSurfer, called as a "Wsurf" widget, which is a great little program
> used for Spectrograms of wave files etc. It relies on Tcl/Tk and the
> SNACK library, which also have to be installed for my script to work.
>
> Can anyone help? I'm open to any option, py2xe, mcmillan's, or cx_freeze
> or whatever that program is, or even an installer that installs all of
> those programs.
>
> I'm vying for the most elegant solution.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --uri