[Tutor] Distributing Python Code for Commercial Porpoises?

[Wayne Watson]

Thanks, but my partner has enough difficulty with a simple Python 
install, let alone VM or anything beyond Windows.

On 8/6/2010 11:42 AM, Chris Fuller wrote:
> 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?
>>      
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