py2exe - generate single executable file

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I thought I heard that py2exe was able to do this  but I never figured it out   Has anyone successfully done this   Can I see your setup py file  and what command line options you used   Basically I m thinking of it giving me a single executable file that does something like unzips itself to maybe  temp and runs

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I recently used py2exe to create an executable for post-review for sending reviews to ReviewBoard.

This was the setup.py I used

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(console=['post-review'])

It created a directory containing the exe file and the libraries needed. I don't think it is possible to use py2exe to get just a single .exe file. If you need that you will need to first use py2exe and then use some form of installer to make the final executable.

One thing to take care of is that any egg files you use in your application need to be unzipped, otherwise py2exe can't include them. This is covered in the py2exe docs.

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The way to do this using py2exe is to use the bundle files option in your setup py file  For a single file you will want to set bundle files to 1  compressed to True  and set the zipfile option to None  That way it creates one compressed file for easy distribution   Here is a more complete description of the bundle file option quoted directly from the py2exe site      Using  bundle files  and  zipfile       An easier  and better  way to create   single-file executables is to set   bundle files to 1 or 2  and to set   zipfile to None  This approach does   not require extracting files to a   temporary location  which provides   much faster program startup       Valid values for bundle files are          3  default  don t bundle    2 bundle everything but the Python interpreter   1 bundle everything  including the Python interpreter          If zipfile is set to None  the files will be bundle   within the executable instead of library zip    Here is a sample setup py   from distutils core import setup import py2exe  sys  os  sys argv append  py2exe    setup      options     py2exe     bundle files   1   compressed   True        windows      script    single py         zipfile   None

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try  c x freeze it can create a good standalone

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No  it s doesn t give you a single executable in the sense that you only have one file afterwards - but you have a directory which contains everything you need for running your program  including an exe file   I just wrote this setup py today  You only need to invoke python setup py py2exe

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As the other poster mention  py2exe  will generate an executable   some libraries to load  You can also have some data to add to your program  Next step is to use an installer  to package all this into one easy-to-use installable unistallable program  I have used InnoSetup with delight for several years and for commercial programs  so I heartily recommend it

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PyInstaller will create a single  exe file with no dependencies  use the --onefile option  It does this by packing all the needed shared libs into the executable  and unpacking them before it runs  just as you describe  EDIT  py2exe also has this feature  see minty s answer   I use the version of PyInstaller from svn  since the latest release  1 3  is somewhat outdated  It s been working really well for an app which depends on PyQt  PyQwt  numpy  scipy and a few more

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You should create an installer  as mentioned before  Even though it is also possible to let py2exe bundle everything into a single executable  by setting bundle files option to 1 and the zipfile keyword argument to None  I don t recommend this for PyGTK applications   That s because of GTK  tries to load its data files  locals  themes  etc   from the directory it was loaded from  So you have to make sure that the directory of your executable contains also the libraries used by GTK  and the directories lib  share and etc from your installation of GTK   Otherwise you will get problems running your application on a machine where GTK  is not installed system-wide   For more details read my guide to py2exe for PyGTK applications  It also explains how to bundle everything  but GTK

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I ve been able to create a single exe file with all resources embeded into the exe  I m building on windows  so that will explain some of the os system calls i m using   First I tried converting all my images into bitmats and then all my data files into text strings  but this caused the final exe to be very very large   After googleing for a week i figured out how to alter py2exe script to meet my needs   here is the patch link on sourceforge i submitted  please post comments so we can get it included in the next distribution   http   sourceforge net tracker index php func detail amp aid 3334760 amp group id 15583 amp atid 315583  this explanes all the changes made  i ve simply added a new option to the setup line  here is my setup py   i ll try to comment it as best I can  Please know that my setup py is complex do to the fact that i m access the images by filename  so I must store a list to keep track of them   this is from a want-to-b screen saver I was trying to make   I use exec to generate my setup at run time  its easyer to cut and paste like that   exec  setup console    script    launcher py    icon resources     0   ICON ico             file resources     s    other resources     u INDEX   1  resource string  -1              options   py2exe   py2exe options          zipfile   None       bitmap string  -1     breakdown  script   py script i want to turn to an exe  icon resources   the icon for the exe  file resources   files I want to embed into the exe  other resources   a string to embed into the exe  in this case a file list   options   py2exe options for creating everything into one exe file  bitmap strings   a list of files to include  Please note that file resources is not a valid option untill you edit your py2exe py file as described in the link above        first time i ve tried to post code on this site  if I get it wrong don t flame me   from distutils core import setup import py2exe   UnusedImport import os   delete the old build drive os system  rmdir  s  q dist     setup my option for single file output py2exe options   dict  ascii True     Exclude encodings                        excludes    ssl      Exclude  ssl                                   pyreadline    difflib    doctest    locale                                     optparse    pickle    calendar    pbd    unittest    inspect       Exclude standard library                        dll excludes   msvcr71 dll    w9xpopen exe                                         API-MS-Win-Core-LocalRegistry-L1-1-0 dll                                         API-MS-Win-Core-ProcessThreads-L1-1-0 dll                                         API-MS-Win-Security-Base-L1-1-0 dll                                         KERNELBASE dll                                         POWRPROF dll                                                                   compressed None     Compress library zip                        bundle files   1                         optimize   2                                                    storage for the images bitmap string       resource string      index   0  print  compile image list                             for image name in os listdir  images         if image name endswith   jpg            bitmap string           str index 1                 images     image name                 resource string    image name               index    1  print  Starting build n   exec  setup console    script    launcher py    icon resources     0   ICON ico             file resources     s    other resources     u INDEX   1  resource string  -1              options   py2exe   py2exe options          zipfile   None       bitmap string  -1    print  Removing Trash  os system  rmdir  s  q build   os system  del  q   pyc   print  Build Complete    ok  thats it for the setup py now the magic needed access the images  I developed this app without py2exe in mind then added it later  so you ll see access for both situations  if the image folder can t be found it tries to pull the images from the exe resources  the code will explain it  this is part of my sprite class and it uses a directx  but you can use any api you want or just access the raw data  doesn t matter   def init self       frame   self env frame     use resource builtin   True     if os path isdir SPRITES FOLDER           use resource builtin   False     else          image list   LoadResource 0  u INDEX   1  split           for  model  file  in SPRITES items            texture   POINTER IDirect3DTexture9            if use resource builtin               data   LoadResource 0  win32con RT RCDATA  image list index file  1   windll kernel32 FindResourceW hmod typersc idrsc                             d3dxdll D3DXCreateTextureFromFileInMemory frame device     Pointer to an IDirect3DDevice9 interface                                               data                  Pointer to the file in memory                                               len data              Size of the file in memory                                               byref texture         ppTexture         else              d3dxdll D3DXCreateTextureFromFileA frame device    UndefinedVariable                                                SPRITES FOLDER   file                                                 byref texture                       self model sprites model    texture      else           raise Exception   sprites  folder is not present      Any questions fell free to ask

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I m told bbfreeze will create a single file  EXE  and is newer than py2exe

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As the other poster mention  py2exe  will generate an executable   some libraries to load  You can also have some data to add to your program  Next step is to use an installer  to package all this into one easy-to-use installable unistallable program  I have used InnoSetup with delight for several years and for commercial programs  so I heartily recommend it

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