Distutils beginner question - windows

[Mark Hammond]

On 3/06/2011 6:57 PM, Seb S wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick question , I have a simple script I want to convert into a windows installer and give to some friends.
> I had a look at http://docs.python.org/distutils/introduction.html  and wrote this setup script:
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> from distutils.core import setup
>
> setup(name="C:\data\Sendmailmsg.py",
>        version='1.0',
>        description='Python Distribution Utilities',
>        author='Sebas929    ',
>        author_email=' ',
>        url=' ',
>        py_modules=['urllib','smtplib'],
>       )
>
>
> I tried to run this  - "C:\Data\Setup.py" bdist_wininst  - in a cmd prompt.
> C:\Data\ contains my script Sendmailmsg.py and Setup.py
> I am getting the error :

I think you misunderstand what bdist_wininst is for and probably want 
py2exe (where you just tell it you want to package Sendmailmsg.py and it 
finds all other dependent modules like smtplib etc, bundles them up with 
a full python runtime and rolls it into a nice executable)

HTH,

Mark