py2exe

Py2Exe is an additional command to DistUtils, that creates standalone distributions for Win32.

Its home is here [http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/] and on Sourceforge [http://sourceforge.net/projects/py2exe/]

Learned things with py2exe 0.5

[http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/py2exe/py2exe-0.5.0.win32-py2.3.exe py2exe0.5.0] is the release of py2exe 0.5 [http://groups.google.de/groups?dq=&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=1ebr001fkuq85al2i8c26ejceu8qvedmdb%404ax.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Dde%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.lang.python announced] by Thomas Heller in January 2004

As nearly usual in Open Source space, prerelases and beta are of the same quality as .02 releases from some commercial software developing companies - rather full functional, with small obstacles.

I had to "upgrade" also my knowledge about workarounds from py2exe 0.4

Tips and Tricks

General

• RunningSetup How to run the setup script once you've written it

• EncodingsAgain Problem with encodings and when they are not found in a standalone executable

• AddingConfigFiles How can you add arbitrary files to your Py2Exe-Setup?

• PathModul Using Jason Orendorffs python PathModul together with Py2Exe 0.5

• PassingOptionsToPy2Exe Avoid using sys.argv to pass options

• SubclassingPy2Exe Customizing the build process

• CustomIcons How to get your own icons with Py2Exe 0.5

• TkInter I do not need any tkinter / tcl-Libs in my Setup

• FilenameCaseMatters Some windows filing systems mangle case, break py2exe programs

• WinBatch A short Windows Batch File to fast provide the EXE File

• ExcludingDlls Stopping py2exe from picking up unwanted DLLs

• ShippingEmbedded How to use py2exe to ship embedded Python modules

py2exe and wxPython

Having some trouble using py2exe (0.5.0) with wxPython (2.4.2.4). Without py2exe my program runs fine, and it compiles fine, but when I run the compiled executable it crashes with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "wxfoo.py", line 10, in ?
from wxPython.wx import *
File "wxPython\wx.pyc", line 4, in ?
File "wxPython\misc.pyc", line 15, in ?
File "wxPython\wx.pyc", line 6, in ?
File "wxPython\misc2.pyc", line 4, in ?
File "wxPython\windows.pyc", line 15, in ?
File "wxPython\wx.pyc", line 10, in ?
File "wxPython\gdi.pyc", line 15, in ?
File "wxPython\wx.pyc", line 12, in ?
File "wxPython\fonts.pyc", line 120, in ?
NameError: name 'wxObjectPtr' is not defined

All wxfoo.py contains is "from wxPython.wx import *" and this happens with every wxPython program I try. I've heard of people successfully py2exe'ing wxPython programs before so I wonder if doing something wrong. This is my setup.py:

   1 from distutils.core import setup
   2 import py2exe
   3 
   4 setup(console=["wxfoo.py"])

I'm at wits end here... anyone have any ideas whats wrong? -jc

py2exe and win32com

• WinShell using win32com.shell with py2exe 0.5

• IncludingTypelibs allowing use of makepy generated typelibs

py2exe and Innosetup

• BetterCompression Getting complete wxPython Programms down to around 4 Megabytes

• SetupLanguage How to localize the language with [http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ py2exe] and [http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php InnoSetup]

• QuickStartIcons How to add Startup-Links to the Quickstart-Bar & the Desktop using [http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php InnoSetup] together with Py2Exe

py2exe and Biopython

• ConfigImportProblems Fixing problems with importing Bio.Config files from library.zip

py2exe and Quixote

Quixote is a pythonivc toolkit for webpages which allows one to execute ptl files using ihooks. You can distribute your web application with medusa or twisted and hence you can create a web application without IIS or Apache.

I like to distribute my application with py2exe but I can not make py2exe setup script to recognize that x.ptl is a valid python files. Any idea how to do this? - impossible: ["Quixote & py2exe"] HAM20040602

py2exe and MatPlotLib

• MatPlotLib - Fixing and including configuration information for this plotting package.

the runtime enviroment

• Py2exeEnvironment - information about the environment for the executable

Fixes

• ExtendingExample a "-.zip" is missing

• GuiApps with options 'windows' still open a console window for errors

Thoughts

• SpeedUp using psyco to speed up code compilation

• CrossPlatformPy2Exe

• Generation of .com and .exe files in one run