pyInstaller is cross-platform and very powerful, with many third-party packages (matplotlib, numpy, PyQT4, …) specially supported “out of the box”, support for eggs, code-signing on Windows (and a couple other Windows-only goodies, optional binary packing… the works!-) The one big issue: the last “released” version, 1.3, is ages-old — you absolutely must install the SVN … Read more
After hours of stumbling around with the same issue, I’d like to share the solution that worked for me on windows vista: using python2.6 copy the following directory into your dist directory generated by py2exe: C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4\plugins\imageformats I just dropped the imageformats directory directly into my dist directory, without any further modifications to qt.conf or anything … Read more
I met this problem, too. After investigation, I found that the runtime error is caused by the font. I noticed that you also used None as the font name, too. Please remember that there’s a notice for using the pygame2exe about the font, just below “Changes by arit:” at pygame2exe page, that we should use … Read more
Following the examples from Python2x\Lib\site-packages\py2exe\samples\user_access_control just add uac_info=”requireAdministrator” to console or windows dict: windows = [{ ‘script’: “admin.py”, ‘uac_info’: “requireAdministrator”, },]
As mentioned by other answerers, the cross-compilation feature is removed from PyInstaller since 1.5. Here, show how to package a Windows executable from Python scripts using PyInstaller under wine. Step 1: Install wine and Python sudo apt-get install wine wine msiexec /i python-2.7.10.msi /L*v log.txt PS: Newer Python versions already include pip (is used to … Read more
Update 2014-05-15 py2exe for Python 3.x is now released! Get it on PyPI. Old information Have a look at the py2exe SourceForge project SVN repository at: http://py2exe.svn.sourceforge.net/ The last I looked at it, it said the last update was August 2009. But keep an eye on that to see if there’s any Python 3 work … Read more
PyInstaller will create a single-file executable if you use the –onefile option (though what it actually does is extracts then runs itself). There’s a simple PyInstaller tutorial here. If you have any questions about using it, please post them…
Try this: RetVal = Shell(“<full path to python.exe> ” & “<full path to your python script>”) Or if the python script is in the same folder as the workbook, then you can try : RetVal = Shell(“<full path to python.exe> ” & ActiveWorkBook.Path & “\<python script name>”) All details within <> are to be given. … Read more
Update (2020-11-17): py2exe LIVES!!! Apparently my pessimism a year ago (see “Update” at bottom of original post) was unwarranted. py2exe released new versions in October and November of 2020, supporting 3.5-3.8 in 0.10.0.2 and adding 3.9 support in 0.10.1.0 (dropping support for 3.4 and earlier). As long as you upgrade to an appropriate py2exe version … Read more
The way to do this using py2exe is to use the bundle_files option in your setup.py file. For a single file you will want to set bundle_files to 1, compressed to True, and set the zipfile option to None. That way it creates one compressed file for easy distribution. Here is a more complete description … Read more