"Keith Suda-Cederquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
Question: How hard is it to convert python code to an exe?
Not too hard if you know computers. Quite hard for a complete
novice. py2exe seems to be the most popular option.
Details: I've written some test software in python for my company.
We'd like to be able to distribute the software without having to
install python on the instrument computer.
If you'd written it in Java would you use a native compiler for Java
or just install the JRE on the target PC? If you used .NET would
you insist on compiling the C# to exe or just install .NET on the
target? Why not do the same for python?
The software itself is several hundred lines of code,
If you said 10s of thousands of lines I might be concerned.
Hundreds is near trivial.
that imports and uses several modules: SciPy, NumPy,
PIL (python imaging library) and matplotlib.
I'm not aware of anty issues with those modules/libraries
but you never know till you try!
harder will this be for longer code with more modules imported?
For a few hundred lines it shouldn't be much harder.
3) We could have someone in-house port the code to C or VB.
That shouldn't really be needed, it would be much cheaper and
more reliable to just install Python - its not very big and thats
all the exe 'copilers' do anyway. They just package the interpreter
and libraries into a self launching file! In fact if you are going to
have
several such scripts you really should install Python, it will take
up much less room and resource than installing a version of
Python for each script!
[ You may have gathered that I'm not a big fan of compiling python
to exe's - I've rarely seen a valid case for it :-]
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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