Compiling python scripts to native code ??

[Lothar Scholz]

Fred Mailhot <fred.mailhot at videotron.ca> wrote in message news:<BC57B164.10C3B%fred.mailhot at videotron.ca>...
> On 2/17/04 7:25 AM, "Thomas Guettler" <guettli at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
> 
> > Am Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:43:15 -0800 schrieb Fred Mailhot:
> > 
> >> Hi...
> >> 
> >> Is there any way to do this for *nix ?? Pointers to resources and/or FAQS
> >> would be much appreciated.
> > 
> > Why do you want to do this?
> > - Improve speed
> > - hide your source code
> > ...
> > 
> > thomas
> 
> Nothing quite so nefarious...*grin*...Actually, I've just realized that the
> initial question wasn't posed properly.
> 
> What I want is to be able to compile Python scripts so that they can be run
> on a system that doesn't have Python installed. I realize that maybe that
> doesn't make a lot of sense, but I want my product to be as widely
> distributable as possible.
> 

Thank the fu**ing Unix developer that there is nothing like this.
Distribution binaries is a pain and not reliable. At the moment you
can do this only on windows plattforms.