On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:56 AM, joy99 <subhakolkata1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Room,
Just a friendly FYI: that's a strange salutation; comp.lang.python AKA python-list isn't a chat room, at least in the normal sense of the term. > I am using Python 2.6.5 (r265:79096, Mar 19 2010, 21:48:26) [MSC v. > 1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 on Windows XP (SP2). > > Trying to create an .exe file of my scripting file I had saved it > as .exe instead of .py file. It seems created. But how to run it? I > tried command prompt, seems unresponsive. You can't compile things to executables (i.e. machine code, i.e. .exe files) just by changing the file extension; you have to use a compiler to generate the .exe. Additionally, Python is normally an interpreted language; hence, it does not normally produce independent executables (unless possibly you're using a non-CPython implementation of Python). You can however generate self-contained executables for Python programs using special tools such as py2exe, cx_freeze, etc., which judging by your other post, you're already aware of. So, if you want to generate a .exe, you'll need to get one of those tools working. (Renaming a text .py file to a .exe results in your CPU trying to treat the text like it's binary machine code; since it's not machine code, the CPU ends up executing gibberish instructions, resulting in an error, freeze, or similar that causes the unresponsiveness you're observing.) Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list