Re: [Py2exe-users] Documentation for PY2EXE?

[Larry B. <lar...@we...>]

Etrade Griffiths wrote:
> Larry
> 
> thanks for the links.  I had looked through them but they seem to be for 
> people who know what they're doing - and I don't!  For example, looking at 
> some example scripts, it is not clear why I need to "include" or "exclude" 
> some files, what "data_files" is for, whether I need to import modules 
> explicitly and so on.  I can't find any documentation for this type of 
> thing though it seems to be pretty fundamental to using PY2EXE
> 
Sometimes you need to include files because they are called in a way that
py2exe can't determine that they are required.  Examples of this are
when applications use a plug-in architecture where modules are imported
dynamically (not using import <module>).  Sometimes you want to exclude
files because you don't require them in your module (unicode or all the
different language codecs).  data_files is if you have files that go
along with your program (.ini files, readme.txt, history.txt, etc.) that
you would like to have packaged up, but aren't part of the program itself.
Normally you can ignore all of these "special" options until you start
to build more complicated applications.

Hope the info helps.

-Larry