On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 15:03, Mathew Elman <mathew.el...@ocado.com> wrote: > > Perhaps there could be something in the std-lib that allowed packaging into > an executable but with some limitations, as a toy example: only supporting > the std-lib dependencies. There is some precedence for minimal > implementations existing in std-lib and third party libraries being more > capable e.g. simple http server. So something like PyInstaller would be for > when you need something more powerful, like support for third party libraries > in the toy example limitation. > > This could amount to adding certain extra features/behaviour to the zipapp > module and a lightweight python_runner app (something like blender_runner for > blender)
This would be a useful addition, but ultimately someone has to contribute the code. The recipe in the zipapp docs here https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html#making-a-windows-executable shows how you can make a standalone exe on Windows, but it's not exactly packaged up in a user friendly form, and I never really had the time to address that problem. And in any case, I don't know enough to do something similar for other operating systems (where there's no equivalent of the embedded distribution). Maybe someone could build a 3rd party implementation, and offer it for stdlib inclusion - but I'm not sure it's going to happen any other way. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/H3QOHZB25RISIJ3AY73NQYR4VJNX2W76/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
