Hi all, I have a small python script that doesn't depend on anything except the standard interpreter. I would like to convert it to a small .exe file on Windows that can distributed alone without introducing additional dependencies. I need to assume, because of other python scripts, that anyone using this has python installed anyway so I hoped it would be possible to do this. (Why I want to do this is a bit involved but I can explain if necessary)
Unfortunately, it seems to be harder than it should be. I tried (1) py2exe. This is really for when python isn't installed on the remote user's machine, so it requires you to distribute a large amount of DLLs etc which are part of the python installation. A bit silly when I know that the remote user has python anyway. (2) setuptools. This works but requires that the remote user installs setuptools also. Something of a shame when I don't require any installation procedure at the moment. (3) create a small .bat file to call the python script and then try to compile it to .exe. There are hundreds of bat2exe tools out there but many of them seem to produce an executable that runs the script in a separate command window, which differs from the .bat behaviour and isn't what I want. That's not including the various freeware ones that just fail and the large number of ones that want my money :) Anyone have any better ideas? Geoff Bache -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
