how to compile a python script in a executable

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How best to compile a python script for an executable running on a linux (Ubuntu), windows and mac operating system.

python python-3.x linux .exe

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In Windows you can compile Python . py scripts into . exe executables using Pyinstaller along with Pywin32:

Follow here the download links:

Pyinstaller: https://www.pyinstaller.org/

Pywin32: https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/releases

You will download the zipped Pyinstaller, just smash its folder, and put it inside the Pyhon folder.

The command to compile is the following: (Where you have the ... you put the complete directory where the Python folder, Pyinstaller, is from, for example: C: Python3 pyinstaller-2.0 pyinstaller.py)

python C:... pyinstaller.py script.py

You can also compile online on this following website: http://py2exe.org/

  • and for linux, there is some way?

  • To generate binary only use the -F parameter, e.g.: $ pyinstaller -F script.py As for the operating system, to generate a . exe, you need to build on Windows, to generate a binary (Linux) you need to do this build on some Linux distro, and the same for Macos

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Using linux you can use the terminal.

python meuscript.py

It is the most basic form without using IDE. You can also specify the interpreter version. Here for example I use

python3 meuScript.py

An alternative is using Jupyter Notebook where you can run a scrip line by line and go seeing the results.

Or using an IDE even.

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    That’s not what he wants. He wants to package the script along with the modules and files needed for the program to run in a single file. For example for the person not having to manually install the modules needed for the program to run.

  • yes, that’s exactly it. I want to package the program so that the end user doesn’t have to install anything.

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