Experiences with Py2Exe

Antoine De Groote antoine at vo.lu
Wed Oct 11 09:53:56 EDT 2006


Isaac Rodriguez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for feedback from people that has used or still uses
> Py2Exe. I love to program in python, and I would like to use it to
> write support tools for our development team, but I cannot require
> everyone to install python in their machines, so I was thinking that
> Py2Exe would help on that.
> 
> The support tools I write are mostly command line driven (no GUI), but
> in the future, I would like to write some expert applications that will
> contain GUI. I was thinking on using wxPython for the GUI, so I was
> wondering how well behaves Py2Exe with the wxPython module.
> 

I did a project with wxPython and py2exe. Just great :-) I also used 
Inno Setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) to create an 
installer. You should be able to learn/use both in one day.

> Other modules I use besides the standard modules are CTypes and the
> Perforce python module p4.py. I try not to use any of the win32 stuff,
> but I can see how I will have to for some utilitites, so if anyone has
> experience with the win32 modules and Py2Exe, any feedback will be
> highly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Isaac.
> 



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