[Tutor] Tutorial executable from python script.

[Karim Liateni]

Hello Alan,

In fact, I want to be sure the users can run it on every machine in our 
network.
Especially, I want to be able to run it on Solaris 5.8 with python 1.5 
(Unix machine).
I wanted to know if I could make some custom executable like in C when 
you want
to build a executable with a static library to be sure if the system 
does not have
the correct shares libraries.

Perhaps the better is to build a python version embedded in my 
application installation.
Do you have any examples or tutorial on how integrate python inside a 
pplication to be
sure that we have all in one and not depand on any local machine 
installation environment.
I need as to embed gtk python library for graphical use.

Thanks
Karim

Alan Gauld wrote:
>
> "Karim Liateni" <karim.liateni at free.fr> wrote
>
>> on machine which doesn't have recent version (2.0) of python. 
>
> Given that v2 is at least 10 years old now that's not really "recent"
> I'd be surprised if any current Linux distros had anything that old on 
> them! Even the ones designed for old hardware.
> In fact, are you sure your code runs on v1 python? There have been a 
> lot of language changes since then.
>
>> the compile()
>> method but how can I use it to make all in one executable 
>
> compile() doesn't make an exe, it compiles python script into python 
> byte code - much as the javac compiler compiles java source into java 
> bytecode.
>
>> run on old system (old python). 
>
> Exactly how old is old?
>
> If you write the code to run on an old Python interpreter it should 
> still work(mostly!) on Python 2.6. The trick is not to compile the 
> code but to write code that is consistent wityh the oldest version of 
> Python you need to run on.
>
> HTH,
>