Re: [Py2exe-users] Re: py2exe and wxPython (ways to slim program's size?)

[Eric B. <bi...@ga...>]

Thomas Heller wrote:

>Eric Belanger <bi...@ga...> writes:
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>>(you should know that [BitTorrent] also uses py2exe, right?)
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>Oh, I didn't know that ;-)  I knew about that the spambayes Outlook
>plugin uses py2exe, though.
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I forgot to mention that BitTorrent also uses wxPython, so thats why I 
used this case to compare my problem.

>>Is there any pointers to slim down my dist size?
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>- ignore the size of the dist directory, and try to compress the
>  installer as much as possible to reduce the download size. There are
>  some hints in the wiki, afaik.
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Thats the path im almost 'forced' to follow, since my programming 
knowledge (sp?) is lacking. Im new to python and im already jumping and 
trying to make a GUI :) Thank god I had some VB lessons in high school :S

>- avoid using wxPython.  You could try to make a small gui with pywin32,
>  or, better yet, switch to a ctypes based gui like venster.  IMO these
>  solutions require more work than using Tkinter or wxPython.
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I have checked the other toolkits you suggested, plus checked this list 
(http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/GuiProgramming), but since I 
rely too much on documentations and examples, venster and pywin32 arent 
good choices for me due to lack of docs, although i liked the idea 
behind venster. Maybe ill get there in a few years :)

On a somewhat related note, i tried to optimize my script that uses 
wxPython, and the dist folder is not at 9,62 Mb (was over 10 at first). 
The interesing part is: without wxPython at all (console), the dist size 
of a script that does the very same thing is 1.26mb. And we didn't talk 
about compression yet :)

>- Look at the .pyd's that py2exe creates, and look into the files it
>  packs into library.zip.  
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It sounds like an extreme solution to me, and Id hate the idea of 
manually removing the unused parts after every build.


Thank you!