OK. So I guess the question should be, how can I make these executables smaller in general?
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 26, 2016, at 5:13 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:22:16 -0500, Carter Temm <crtbrai...@gmail.com> > declaimed the following: > >> Hi, >> I’m writing a couple different projects at the moment, and when I compile it >> into a single executable using pyinstaller, it becomes extremely large. I’m >> guessing this is because of the modules used. Because I’m not that skilled >> at python, I put stuff like for example, import sys. I imagine the final >> project could be made smaller > by specifying from something import something_else. but the thing is, I don’t > know what smaller I could import with these set of modules. Is there a > program that could tell me this. Sorry if this question is really basic, but > it’d be helpful. > > "from module import name" still has to include the entire module -- > since that is the file. It is effectively the same as doing > > import module > name = module.name > del module > > Also -- anything that creates an executable file for Python will be > including the Python interpreter ITSELF. That may be a lot of the bloat you > see. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfr...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
