Compiling Python Scripts to Windows Executables
Compiling Python Scripts to Windows Executables
Submitted by Corey Goldberg on Tue, 20/02/2007 - 22:50.I often write quick Python scripts that I need to run on other machines. It is sometimes easier to just drop a windows .EXE onto a machine (with a Python Interpreter compiled into it), rather than doing a full Python installation. To do this, I use py2exe.
py2exe is a Python Distutils extension which converts Python scripts into executable Windows programs. This enables your Python scripts to be run on Windows platforms without a Python installation.
You can run py2exe directly from the command line, or you can script it. I wrote a small convenience script that I use for general compilation.
Let's call the compilation script: compile.py
Let's say we have a script we want to compile named: foo.py
You would then invoke it from the command line like this:
>python compile.py foo.py
This will create a 'dist' subdirectory containing the newly created executable along with some necessary DLL's.
Here is the code I use for my compile.py:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# Corey Goldberg
import py2exe
import sys
entry_point = sys.argv[1]
sys.argv.pop()
sys.argv.append('py2exe')
sys.argv.append('-q')
else:
print 'usage: compile.py <python_script>\n'
raw_input("press ENTER to exit...")
sys.exit(1)
'py2exe': {
'compressed': 1,
'optimize': 2,
'ascii': 1,
'bundle_files': 1
}
}
# Corey Goldberg
import py2exe
import sys
entry_point = sys.argv[1]
sys.argv.pop()
sys.argv.append('py2exe')
sys.argv.append('-q')
else:
print 'usage: compile.py <python_script>\n'
raw_input("press ENTER to exit...")
sys.exit(1)
'py2exe': {
'compressed': 1,
'optimize': 2,
'ascii': 1,
'bundle_files': 1
}
}
(note: you need to have Python and py2exe installed on a Windows box to run this)