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walterbyrd at iname

Aug 29, 2008, 3:46 PM

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Can I write a binary windows executable with Python?

I have heard about Pysco. But does create a single executable that can
run without Python being installed? Or does that just compile the
libraries?
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alex at a13x

Aug 29, 2008, 4:07 PM

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Re: Can I write a binary windows executable with Python? [In reply to]

Hi,

What you're probably referring to is py2exe tool (http://www.py2exe.org/) which
creates windows executable programs out of python scripts. Once created,
such executable can be run on a Windows machine without Python installed.

Psyco, on the other hand, is a tool that greatly optimizes and
increases execution
speed of python scripts.

-alex.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:46 PM, walterbyrd <walterbyrd[at]iname.com> wrote:
> I have heard about Pysco. But does create a single executable that can
> run without Python being installed? Or does that just compile the
> libraries?
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lists at cheimes

Aug 29, 2008, 4:14 PM

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Re: Can I write a binary windows executable with Python? [In reply to]

walterbyrd wrote:
> I have heard about Pysco. But does create a single executable that can
> run without Python being installed? Or does that just compile the
> libraries?

Psyco is a kind of JIT (just in time) optimizer for Python. It's limited
to i386 compatible CPUs (aka X86 architecture). It has nothing to do
with standalone executables.

You are lookin for py2exe. It's a program which creates standalone
bundles of Python applications. The bundles contains the python core
library, a startup executable and all additional dlls and Python
scripts. The bundle runs w/o an installed Python interpreter.

Christian

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