Re: [Py2exe-users] Py2exe on windows

[Michael F. <mi...@pc...>]

Gregory Pereira wrote:

>Hi,
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>we developed a project in Python and want to convert it to an exe.
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>How easy is it. We used packages like The Twisted Framework for
>networking, Pygame, TKinter for the menu.
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It is generally very easy to use and difficulties are actually 
reasonably rare. *However* - I know that there are issues with at least 
Pygame of the packages you list above. There is a separate script 
(available from the Pygame website) for using Pygame with py2exe.

Tkinter is pretty striaghtforward - I've used py2exe on a couple of 
projects that use it, and it 'just worked'.

I have no experience with Twisted and py2exe, my guess is that you have 
problems then several people on the Twisted mailing list will have tried it.

The main problems you may experience are where installed packages use 
the Windoze registry - it's obviously impossible for py2exe to pick up 
on this. You may have to contact the package maintainer for this. This 
only applies to wrapped C/C++ packages. (Which Pygame and Twisted both 
are I think - and I guess include other packages like openGL/SSH support 
which is probably through wrapped DLLs).

>Should one write a text file for each source code file or application?
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One 'setup.py' per application is usually the way...

>Is py2exe the best option to use?
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Yes ! Much easier than other options. For *testing* purposes, Movable 
Python can be handy. It is a py2exe built environment that will run 
other python scripts. If a script runs with this (*preferably* on 
another machine of course !) then it will almost certainly work py2exe'd.

Best Regards,

Fuzzy
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python

>Regards
> 
>Greg 
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