On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:51 AM Calvin Spealman <cspea...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:06 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:49 PM Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote: >> > >> > I'm sure this has come up before, but a tiny pyinstaller created exe is >> > being seen as malware by windows 10. >> > >> > Is there any way to create simple single file applications which don't get >> > this treatment? >> > >> > The intended users are unlikely to understand how to adjust the scanner to >> > whitelist the application. >> >> Tell them to install Python from an official source, and then >> distribute your application as a single .py (or .pyw) file. Problem >> solved. > > > This is in no way a solution or a reasonable way to distribute software to > end-users. Please don't give non-answers. >
I'm sorry to have used this non-answer myself in the past. I must have been hallucinating; all those end users that double-click on .py files and successfully run applications must actually have been figments of my imagination. </sarcasm> This IS a viable way to distribute software. Yes, it means you have to package everything up into a single .py file, which restricts you a bit; I'm not sure if it's viable to distribute a .zip file for importing, but it wasn't last time I did this. But if you can manage to make a single file out of it, it becomes - effectively - an application. Maybe this answer isn't applicable to everyone, but it's unfair to call it a non-answer. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
