Re: [Py2exe-users] setting packages from setup script

[David F. <da...@sj...>]

Thomas Heller wrote:

>David Fraser <da...@sj...> writes:
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>>Hi
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>>Is it possible to set a list of packages to be included by py2exe in
>>the setup script instead of on the command line?
>>I tried packages=["wx"] but it didn't work.
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>py2exe uses standard distutils conventions: you can also provide an
>options named parameter instead of command line options to the setup
>function, in this way:
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>setup(...,
>     options = {"py2exe": { "packages": ["wx"]},
>               ...},
>     ...)
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Brilliant, thanks Thomas, I didn't know this...

>>BTW this is for building wxPRE, which is progressing ... we now have a
>>wxPRE.exe generated by py2exe that seems to run fine
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>Have to look into this...
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At the moment its working fairly well (see the stuff on the wxPython list)
Its going to be interesting working out how to use distutils + py2exe to 
bundle wxPRE either by itself or with an application
Also looking at creating installers based on py2exe...

David