Hello everyone, and I apologize in advance if anyone gets this message twice.
I am trying to figure out how to use py2exe. I've created a game and sent it to friends before, and had to have them install python, pygame, and livewires in order to play it, which, as you can imagine, is a royal pain. So the idea of a windows executable sounds just peachy. I downloaded the package and read through some of the samples. They didnt make a *whole* lot of sense, and I couldn't get them to work, so I googled for some more beginner-friendly tutorials, and found one basic sort of 'overview' here http://www.free2code.net/plugins/articles/read.php?id=395 and another tutorial by Pete Shinners here: http://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/Executable.html . I was very excited to see the later, since the chimp pygame tutorial actually made sense to me as a beginner, and I hoped I'd be able to follow this one as easily. Ah, but alas... I modified the setup.py file to match the details of my game (as best I can imagine: I don't know what "optimize = 2 #0, 1, or 2; like -O and -OO" means, so I just left it as his sample had it, and I'm not sure if I put in all of the module names it will need specified, but it looks as if its supposed to give me an error if it can't find them). But then the tutorial says "simply run this script and it will do all the work. The final executable and DLLs will be placed inside a project directory, which will be inside a directory named "dist". " I tried running it by doubleclicking, and it just closed out, so I tried it with IDLE open and it gave me the following error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "Z:\misc\surprise\1\setup.py", line 49, in ? setup(name=project_name, scripts=[script]) File "Z:\misc\python\lib\distutils\core.py", line 137, in setup raise SystemExit, gen_usage(dist.script_name) + "\nerror: %s" % msg SystemExit: usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] or: setup.py --help-commands or: setup.py cmd --help error: option --force not recognized ..... which has me stymied. The "Z:\misc\python\lib\distutils\core.py" file is not even the setup.py file I'm running (which most of you probably already deduced, but which still confuses me a little), and I have no idea what that error is trying to tell me. I do know, however, that no "dist" directory was created (unless it was put in some really strange place I don't know about). Was there something wonky with my py2exe install, since it's giving me an error from a file in my lib? Or am I just trying to use py2exe incorrectly? If you know why this isnt working, or know of any very-beginner-friendly tutorials other than the ones I found on google, I would surely appreciate it! Thanks, Denise _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
