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Re: How to distribute python console program

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On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Nicholas Cannon
<nicholascannon1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a simple program that is ran in the console with 2 modules and i was wondering how i could like export it so i could give it to someone to use as like a utlitie in the console?

I'm assuming that the 'someone' you want to give it to has python
installed (if they are running any kind of linux or OS X they should
do).

If so, you can use something like

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ncdistribute/

to make single zip file that contains your code and all its
dependencies.  There is no need to unpack the zip file - python can
run it without unpacking, so you simply put the your_utility_name.pyz
file somewhere in the user's path and it can be run easily.  You can
even rename it so that it doesn't have the .pyz filename.

If you want to send your application to someone who doesn't have
python installed, things are trickier.

http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net

aims to help you do that kind of thing.

Hope that helps,

Nicholas

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How to distribute python console program Nicholas Cannon <nicholascannon1@gmail.com> - 2014-06-21 19:51 -0700
  Re: How to distribute python console program Jurko Gospodnetić <jurko.gospodnetic@pke.hr> - 2014-06-22 11:56 +0200
  Re: How to distribute python console program Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole@gmail.com> - 2014-06-22 10:58 +0100
  Re: How to distribute python console program Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-06-22 14:25 -0400

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