On Dec 16, 2013 11:20 AM, "Nicholas Cole" <nicholas.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear List, > > What is the best way to distribute a private, pure python, Python 3 > project that needs several modules (some available on pypi but some > private and used by several separate projects) in order to run? > > I'd like to include everything that my project needs to run in a > single package. The best way to do this seems to be to be to create > symlinks to the source code of the "3rd party" modules I need and > create a setup.py file that includes them in its "packages" list. Is > this what other people do? > > But even more ideally, I'd like to package my script and its > dependencies in a single zip file that can be executed by python > directly. I see several declarations that this is possible online, > but I can't find a simple recipe for converting a script and its > dependencies into this kind of distribution. Could someone give me a > pointer to a description of "the right way to do it".
For pure python code it's as simple as putting the code in a zip file with a script called __main__.py. Then you can run the zip file with python as if it was a python script. Oscar
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