On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Maxim Khitrov <mkhit...@gmail.com> wrote: > - Show quoted text - > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:18 PM, William Heath <wghe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi All, >> I am using py2exe to create a windows executable. I am curious if anyone >> knows a way to automatically upgrade a py2exe windows executable while it is >> running. Is that possible? If so how? If it isn't possible, what is the >> next best thing? Also, if it is not available using py2exe is it available >> in other languages/solutions your aware of? >> -Tim
Here's what I did, which works really well. The main script imports other python modules which do the real work of the program. It is only a few lines long and looks something like this: import main main.run() There is more stuff there, imports etc to help py2exe find everything, but that's the basic idea. Then, to upgrade the program, all I have to do is replace the modules which are in a subfolder. (And be careful to reload them, which has its own considerations). I do some wonky stuff in my build script to delete my main modules from library.zip since its easier to replace them outside of that, you could also use the skip-archive option to not use the .zip file at all. You really can't replace an exe itself while its running, I would avoid that as much as possible. Workarounds to do this are highly prone to error. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list