Update 2014-05-15 py2exe for Python 3.x is now released! Get it on PyPI. Old information Have a look at the py2exe SourceForge project SVN repository at: http://py2exe.svn.sourceforge.net/ The last I looked at it, it said the last update was August 2009. But keep an eye on that to see if there’s any Python 3 work … Read more
I decided to go with cx_Freeze. It created a distro that I was able to simply copy and move to the target machine. Also, it was much easier to use than py2exe; further it seems that it is still being maintained (as of Mar 10, 2011), while py2exe development does not look as active.
The reason is lack of fork() on Windows (which is not entirely true). Because of this, on Windows the fork is simulated by creating a new process in which code, which on Linux is being run in child process, is being run. As the code is to be run in technically unrelated process, it has … Read more
I also found using ‘pip install future’ resolved this issue I got the information from here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/697226/importerror-no-module-named-builtins I hope this clarifies this for other users, like me who stumbled upon your question
Try this: RetVal = Shell(“<full path to python.exe> ” & “<full path to your python script>”) Or if the python script is in the same folder as the workbook, then you can try : RetVal = Shell(“<full path to python.exe> ” & ActiveWorkBook.Path & “\<python script name>”) All details within <> are to be given. … Read more
It is missing from pypi, if you click on the 0.6.9 link it brings you to the 0.9.2.0 python 3 package, there seems to be no 0.6.9 package available to download. Try using pip install http://sourceforge.net/projects/py2exe/files/latest/download?source=files
pyInstaller is cross-platform and very powerful, with many third-party packages (matplotlib, numpy, PyQT4, …) specially supported “out of the box”, support for eggs, code-signing on Windows (and a couple other Windows-only goodies, optional binary packing… the works!-) The one big issue: the last “released” version, 1.3, is ages-old — you absolutely must install the SVN … Read more
I put this in all my setup.py scripts: distutils.core.setup( options = { “py2exe”: { “dll_excludes”: [“MSVCP90.dll”] } }, … ) This keeps py2exe quiet, but you still need to make sure that dll is on the user’s machine.
As mentioned by other answerers, the cross-compilation feature is removed from PyInstaller since 1.5. Here, show how to package a Windows executable from Python scripts using PyInstaller under wine. Step 1: Install wine and Python sudo apt-get install wine wine msiexec /i python-2.7.10.msi /L*v log.txt PS: Newer Python versions already include pip (is used to … Read more
PyInstaller will create a single-file executable if you use the –onefile option (though what it actually does is extracts then runs itself). There’s a simple PyInstaller tutorial here. If you have any questions about using it, please post them…