Jacob Kruger wrote: > > I’m now (finally) starting to actually try get started with python, > etc., and aside from being partly interested in the symbian/phone > implementation thereof, I am initially just starting off looking into > python apps running on windows systems, but aside from an actually > installed interpreter, etc., am also just wondering about things like > the sort of wrapper possibilities, where you can include some sort of > compiled python code in an .exe file etc. That should then be able to > (hopefully) run on most windows machines as a sort of standalone app, > but if I’m totally confused about possibilities, then would also like > to know for sure, and also wondering if this might be related to being > limited to only certain versions of python, etc.? >
Python code is not compiled, at least not in the mainstream implementations. There must always be an interpreter. Packages like py2exe bundle up your script, the interpreter, and the necessary files from the standard library into a single file that can be run AS IF it were a compiled binary. At run time, the pieces are unzipped into a local directory, executed, and then released. That does have a certain amount of overhead, but it means you always use the version you expect. In our local office, I've pushed a copy of the interpreter onto all of our machines, just so I can run scripts without that overhead. By the way, the HTML email overhead in your message was quite obnoxious. Less than 1/3 of the surface area of your email was dedicated to your message. The rest was advertising and a legally pointless disclaimer. I'm sure you don't have any control over that, but I hope you remind your management team once in a while that many people really dislike that kind of email. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
