> On 3 Jan 2020, at 02:31, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.pyt...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
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>
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, 02:50 Barry Scott, <ba...@barrys-emacs.org
> <mailto:ba...@barrys-emacs.org>> wrote:
> Expect for trivial programs you cannot distribute a single file python exe
> for windows.
>
> You can, PyInstaller does it. You can have folder-based or single file apps
>
> As you found zipapp is not a solution.
>
> Zipapp is a good candidate. Proposing to improve it
I'm at a lose to understand what the problem is that zipapp is the solution to
that is not better served
with pip or PyInstall etc.
>
>
> Many stdlib modules use DLL's on Windows and you cannot run a DLL from
> inside a zip file.
>
> PyInstaller's -F mode does it well
Then use that are be happy.
>
> But, this proposal is not about native executables. It's about a .jar like
> executable. As a python-specific 'executable', os is not a problem unless of
> course you are using like curses on windows
Barry
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