[Py2exe-users] newbie: need help with py2exe, here is what I've done...

[Jeff P. <je...@se...>]

Hi, I am having difficulty with py2exe. Here is what I have done: I
simply downloaded the executable (py2exe-0.5.0.win32-py2.3.exe) and
executed it, wrote the setup script (setup.py), and typed on the IDLE
command line:
 
      '>>> python setup.py py2exe'
 
I get this message:
 
      '>>> python setup.py py2exe
      SyntaxError: invalid syntax'
 
If I run the setup.py from IDLE by pressing 'F5' I get this message:
 
Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:/Documents and Settings/jeffp/My Documents/Python
Applications/EX Kalculator/setup.py", line 6, in -toplevel-
    setup(windows = ["wxAppEXKalc.py"], name = "SeaKalc", version =
"1.0")
  File "C:\Python23\lib\distutils\core.py", line 137, in setup
    raise SystemExit, gen_usage(dist.script_name) + "\nerror: %s" % msg
SystemExit: usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2
[cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help
 
error: no commands supplied
 
 
This is setup.py:
 
      #setup.py
      from distutils.core import setup
      import py2exe
 
      setup(windows = ["wxAppEXKalc.py"], name = "SeaKalc", version =
"1.0")
 
I wrote the applications 'wxAppEXKalc.py' using the boa constructor and
wxpython, it has only 1 parent frame and 2 dialogs, it uses Numeric, os,
and re.  I read the py2exe documentation although I am still struggling
as I am a newbie. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!!
 
Jeff