[-Fabez-]

Recently I have created a utility using Python. It works perfectly well on my computer as I have Python installed, however it will not work on other computers as they do not have Python installed. I thought about using Portable Python, but decided against it as I want to keep my utility small. I used Py2Exe , but that generates more than one file and I need a single .Exe file. Next I looked at PyInstaller, but found the documentation confusing. Any help, advice or pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks -Fabez-

[Stutzbach]

-Fabez-, on 19 Oct, 2008 - 07:54 AM, said:

Recently I have created a utility using Python. It works perfectly well on my computer as I have Python installed, however it will not work on other computers as they do not have Python installed. I thought about using Portable Python, but decided against it as I want to keep my utility small. I used Py2Exe , but that generates more than one file and I need a single .Exe file. Next I looked at PyInstaller, but found the documentation confusing. Any help, advice or pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks -Fabez-

You can do this with Py2Exe, but it requires a few extra options:

target = {
	'script': 'your_script_name.py',
	}

setup(windows=[target],
	  name="exe_name",
	  options = {'py2exe': {"bundle_files": 1, }},
	  zipfile=None
	  )

The bundle_files option tells py2exe it to bundle everything including the python interpreter, and the zipfile=None tells it to put the bundle into the executable instead of in library.zip.

Hope that helps!

[-Fabez-]

Thanks for that, I will give it a try and post how it goes

[-Fabez-]

I had to change windows to console, but other than that it worked perfect, thanks

[Stutzbach]

-Fabez-, on 19 Oct, 2008 - 12:34 PM, said:

I had to change windows to console, but other than that it worked perfect, thanks

Glad I could help.