On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:31:27PM +0000, brad gray wrote: > hello, > > ok, i have to write a silly program to parse some text and make a > system command. > i do all my development on a debian box, and this is a great excuse > to write some python, but the catch is that this will also have be used > on wintel machines and i can't require people to have python installed. > i don't want to write this is c, but i have to end up with a '.exe' > > so, my question is , is there a compiler out there for python?
The python interpreter is a compiler (to bytecode), but there is no native-code compiler for python. There is, however, a program which will bundle the python interpreter with your script and create a single .exe file: http://starship.python.net/crew/gmcm/install.html (the site appears to be down currently; try again later) Note that this is a tremendously inefficient way to do a "silly program" to make a system command. Unfortunately, since there is no standard scripting language on Windows, you're stuck with it unless you're willing to write C/C++ (see cygwin if you're interested in a free compiler for Windows) -Ben -- Ben Darnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thoughtstream.org Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP/GPG key 1024D/1F06E509
