Hi All,

Question: How hard is it to convert python code to an exe?

Details: I've written some test software in python for my company.  We'd like 
to be able to distribute the software without having to install python on the 
instrument computer.

The software itself is several hundred lines of code, that imports and uses 
several modules: SciPy, NumPy, PIL (python imaging library) and matplotlib.  My 
background is in ME, so I'm far from an expert at coding and I'd still consider 
myself a begginer when it comes to Python.  My code is still a little 
cumbersome (due to my past experience in Matlab) and is far from pythonic.  

I've had some success generating .exe files using pyinstaller for a few simple 
python programs i've written (less than 100 lines of code, that just use the os 
module).  How much harder will this be for longer code with more modules 
imported?

In general I think we have a few options:
1)  If it's easy I can do it myself.  I'm just worried that including the 
modules will make things messy/impossible.
2)  If it's too hard for me, but easy for an expert.  We could probably hire a 
consultant to package.
3)  If it's too hard for anybody (unlikely).  We could have someone in-house 
port the code to C or VB.

Any other general advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Keith



      
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