Sneaky! :-) Yes, I now recall you mentioning it earlier. I'm looking at
dist right now. I see a program I built in a folder above dist,
pylab_scatter.exe. Interestingly, if I fire it up from the Win folder, a
dos-window appears and it dies. A few lines appear too quickly to read.
If I execute it from the command prompt, it works fine. Still the
mystery to me is why I don't need to add exe in the cmd prompt to
execute it. Further, how did it know to look in the dist folder? I
checked with IDLE's path browser, and don't see it there. I'm not yet on
board with the browser, but it looks like a starting point for finding
py files I've run under IDLE.
I looked for your post that had details, and I don't see it. I know you
did post it. I had some trouble a few days ago trying to reply to one of
your posts. It's not in my trash. Strange.
The two directories are discussed just above section 4, right at the end
of the a long output list. I missed that, since I thought the paragraph
described the list, which I wasn't really interested in at the time. I
would think that all the extras in dist are useful to other compiles of
programs in my py folder?
I have a comment about the tutorial.
The command line shown a few lines into section 3. does not need python
in the line in my case. setup.py py2exe works.
I've glanced at section 5 and understand the basics. I'll be back to it
later as needed.
I didn't notice your reply in the queue this morning, and posted a msg
about the disappearing file thinking there was a disconnect on the posts
I had trouble with as above. I'll fix that post shortly.
On 2/19/2010 5:34 AM, Robert Berman wrote:
Wayne,
Somewhere in the tutorial should be a comment about py2exe creating two
additional directories: build and dist. Forget about the build directory. If
you look in the dist directory you will find the exe file and all supporting
files. If you look back to an earlier email you will see a more detailed
explanation I sent you.
Robert Berman
-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Watson [mailto:sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 11:10 PM
To: Robert Berman
Cc: tutor@python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Wrestling with the Py2exe Install, Win7[XP!],
Py2.5
There's a bit of an anomaly. I've compiled 3 small programs now, and
in
cmd prompt a Dir does not find the file. It finds the py file, but
not
the completed file. Nevertheless, if I type in the prefix, the
desired
program executes.
On 2/18/2010 4:48 PM, Wayne Watson wrote:
Got it. Fooled myself. I'm converting to Win7 and have my XP
keyboard
and monitor side by side with the same for XP. I did the world
program
in XP and py2exe module in W7!!
world compiled and ran successfully. Now for a bigger program with
matplotlib and tkinter. Maybe I'll just settle for a small
matplotlib
program for the moment. VBG
Thanks very much.
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