I would like to package my main script and all the modules it imports into a single script that will run just as the collection would. It should not need to package standard Python lib modules -- just my local modules. This is not the same question that would be answered with py2exe or py2app. I don't need to package the script into a binary along with Python. I expect Python to be installed. I also don't want to use distutils to install the script. The script will always run on Unix.
I thought that there might be some way to run a script package from a tar file. One way would be to have the package script untar itself into a temp directory; run the main script; then delete the temporary package directory when done. That sounds clunky and prone to leave around trash if someone does a 'kill -9'. However, this might be an acceptable compromise. I'm sure that I've seen a tool around like this, but I can't find it anymore. I checked the usual places (google and sf.net). I also considered simply cutting and pasting all the modules I need into one single, giant script, but that's less appealing than the tarball idea (unless it could be done automatically). Yours, Noah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list