On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:55 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > It's used as main()-function for frozen Python interpreters. > > See eGenix PyRun as an example and the freeze tool in Tools/freeze/ > for the implementation that uses this API: > > http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > This is very old DNA. The persistent user request was a way to bundle up a > Python program as a single executable file that could be sent to a friend or > colleague and run without first having to install Python. If you Google for > python freeze you'll still see old references to it. > > IIRC I did the original version -- it would scan your main program and try > to follow all your imports to get a list of modules (yours and stdlib) that > would be needed, and it would then byte-compile all of these and produce a > huge C file. You would then compile and link that C file with the rest of > the Python executable. All extensions would have to be statically linked. > > I think this was also used as the basis of a similar tool that worked for > Windows. > > Nowadays installers are much more accessible and easier to use, and Python > isn't so new and unknown any more, so there's not much demand left. Thanks for the explanations. It's interesting stuff. :) -eric _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
