On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:47:19 AM UTC-4, David M. Cotter wrote: > okay, well that might turn out to be useful, except i don't quite know how to > use it, and there are no "from scratch" instructions. > > > > i managed to download "py2exe-0.6.9.zip" and unzip it, but how does one > "install" this package? (yes, still a newb at that)
What's your OS? For Windows there is an exe that installs it. Did you download that? Or you could, in the command line, do: cd c:\some_folder\the_py2exe_folder python setup.py install (The Python site has a huge page of details on that route. http://docs.python.org/2/install/) Or you could probably get away with just moving the py2exe folder to Python27\site-packages (or whatever Python you have) Or you could first install pip (recommended!) and then just: pip install py2exe (http://dubroy.com/blog/so-you-want-to-install-a-python-package) > then, once installed, how do i say "include the entire world" instead of just > "mymodule" ? cuz the point of embedding python on my app is that the > end-user can run any script at all, not just one module. I don't know. As I understand it, py2exe will pull whatever is needed in Python to run your module. If your module requires all of Python, I guess that will work. I think regardless of the module, even if it is a "Hello, World" program, py2exe has to include the Python interpreter. Unfortunately, and surprisingly, the py2exe site is still down. Odd. If it returns, that should help. There is also a py2exe users mailing list that you could find by Googling for it. In terms of -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list