[Tutor] Re: compiling

[Andrei]

Tim Henderson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> What are the steps you take to bundle python software after you have written it. I tried just compiling it into a pyc but it still ran through the python.exe. How do you make a standalone app.
> 

You're probably looking for py2exe. Note that this doesn't really 
"compile", it just sort of puts all necessary stuff (including the 
python dll plus any modules you use) in a sort of self-extracting file. 
Compiling to "real" binary code is not possible.

Note that, depending on the update frequency of your software, it might 
be easier to have your users download a Python distro once and your 
(small) program (py file(s)) often, rather than making them download 
your (large) py2exe packed program every time (especially if you have a 
GUI it might get quite large I think).

Andrei

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