[Tutor] Distributing Python Code for Commercial Porpoises?

[Chris Fuller]

It sounds like maybe you could use Enthought Python, which is a bundle of most 
of the popular numerical libraries by the scipy sponsors.  Not free, however, 
there's a trial version.

http://enthought.com/products/epd.php

The problem of bundling stuff is a real thorny one and has been beaten to death 
many times in this list and elsewhere.  It really doesn't solve the problem, 
anyway, if you want your friend to be able to play with and rerun the code.

Another idea is to make a virtual machine that you can duplicate or even mail 
back and forth with just the stuff required.  Then you'd need an OS license for 
it (or use a minimal Linux, like Arch or DSL, but you probably want to stick 
to the Windows platform, I'd guess.)

Cheers

On Friday 06 August 2010, Wayne Watson wrote:
> Yes, porpoises was a (old) pun.
> 
> Back in Feb. I raised a question related to Subject. I just wanted to
> know if Python code could be compiled in some sense. Robert Berman
> pitched in with some help. Although I was making progress, I put it off
> for a future date. I really don't want to get into py2exe here, but am
> wondering if there are Python vendors who in some way sell their product
> in compiled form?
> 
> My intent though is really not to produce a commercial product. My
> question relates to difficulty my partner and I have to exchanging py
> programs w/o him stumbling. I send him a py program written using
> Windows Python 2.5. He has the same. I've executed it IDLE and it works
> fine. He executes, and it squawks per my post here on finding a version
> #, showing his output. We need to make sure we are on the same playing
> ground with numpy and scipy. I don't think we are. He barely knows
> Python, but did, supposedly, a install of it, numpy and scipy from the
> same written direction I use. I think he mistakenly installed a
> different version of numpy. So how can we make sure we or anyone are on
> the same playing field? Perhaps we should resort to command like
> execution. I am not confident that using py2exe will solve this problem.
> Is there a Python tool that provides some thorough description of a
> Python installation?