Re: A few q's on python files.

2005-02-24 Thread Peter Hansen
Tim Roberts wrote: There are packages (like py2exe) that can convert your script into an executable, but they are essentially installers. They package your script, and all the scripts and libraries it needs, into a single file along with the interpreter. When the .exe is executed, it extracts the

Re: A few q's on python files.

2005-02-22 Thread Tim Roberts
Joseph Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >i'm new to python (by a week) but am learning fast (that's what I like >about python--it's simplicity). I got disgusted with C and C++ (i was >learning) probably because of a bad copy of Visual C++ 6.0 that gave me errors. I find that very hard to bel

Re: A few q's on python files.

2005-02-21 Thread Larry Bates
On windows there's py2exe which packs a python program so that it can be distributed "like" and .exe, but Python is a bytecode language (a la Java) so it is never actually compiled into machine language. The .pyc files are the bytecode that is actually executed. For C programmers this takes some

A few q's on python files.

2005-02-21 Thread Joseph Quigley
hiya, i'm new to python (by a week) but am learning fast (that's what I like about python--it's simplicity). I got disgusted with C and C++ (i was learning) probably because of a bad copy of Visual C++ 6.0 that gave me errors. I noticed that IDLE doesn't have an option to allow you to convert a