py2exe is a Python Distutils extension which converts Python scripts into executable Windows programs, able to run without requiring a Python installation. Development is hosted on GitHub. You …

py2exe turns Python programs into packages that can be run on other Windows computers without needing to install Python on those computers. You must run py2exe on a Windows computer.

How do I use py2exe on Mac OS or Linux? Sorry, you can't. py2exe works only on Windows computers, not on any other operating system.

To determine which modules should go in the final `.exe` file, py2exe does a recursive search of the script that you are packaging to find its dependencies and, in turn, all of their dependencies.

Jun 15, 2008 · py2exe uses python's modulefinder to examine your script and find all python and extension modules needed to run it. Pure python modules are compiled into .pyc or .pyo files in a …

How does py2exe work and what are all those files? Let's start from the needed results going back to how py2exe does its job.

The "extending" example that comes with Py2Exe shows a nicely integrated approach for using Inno Setup to create single file executables. This example isn't so nicely integrated, but it uses NSIS …

The py2exe distribution contains a sample named hello.py together with a setup script to build an executable. The script can be used to explore the differences in the runtime environments between …

"py2exe" is a new Distutils command that is added when you import py2exe. To use py2exe you need to create a setup.py file to tell Distutils and py2exe what you want to do.

This must be done on the development machine and py2exe will then create code that uses it on the target machine. A final wrinkle is that the first time you run it the cache is created but an import …