On 23/05/2011 09:09, Jacob Kruger wrote:
Not 100% sure if this is for real, but almost seemed like when I
tried out making use of py2exe to build an executable from a python
script of mine, it didn't accept the use of a string value of exit in
single quotes after it had built the executable, as in, something
like the following, that would work fine in the normal interpreter
rendition, now told me something along the lines of 'exit' is not
defined:

Usual recommendation: provide the exact traceback (cut-and-pasted
if at all possible) rather than "something along the lines of...".

My guess is that you used backtick quotes (`) rather than
single quotes. Backticks are a little-used alternative to
the repr () function -- deprecated in Python 3 ISTR. That
would leave the interpreter calling the __repr__ method
of the exit object. The interactive interpreter has an exit
object:

<dump>

ActivePython 2.7.1.4 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Feb 7 2011, 11:30:38) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> exit
Use exit() or Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit
>>>

</dump>

... which probably comes from site.py (I can't be bothered to check
right now) which isn't imported if Python isn't running interactively.
Such as, within a py2exe bundle.

Also, going to look through any sort of documentation can find, but,
off-hand, does py2exe need you to in fact include all code etc. in
one file?

Nope. I have multifile py2exe bundles, eg:

<code>

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup (
  console=[
    dict (script="web_portraits_lrwp.py"),
    dict (script="web_contacts_lrwp.py"),
    dict (script="web_uaccess_lrwp.py"),
  ],
  data_files=[
    (".", ["header.html"]),
  ],
  options={
    "py2exe" : {
      "includes" : ["decimal"],
      "packages" : ["email"],
    }
  }
)

</code>

Each of those scripts pulls in quite a few other modules,
all of which py2exe picks up and bundles into its library.zip.


TJG
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