Dear Mike, > Are you sure? The only way I know of to convert a python script to > .exe is with py2exe, which does it by creating an executable archive, > and putting all the scripts that make up the program and the python > interpreter in the archive. It doesn't remove the Python dependency so > much as hide it. Sure, you are right. If we convert the scripts to .exe, the user will not need to install a newer (and possible incopatible) python, but a good tested version. Therfore, we can say that the depency is removed.
> The downside is that you wind up with one copy of Python installed for > every script. If you've only got one script, this is ok. If you've got > more than one, you probably want to consider another approach. It will be the same, using several scripts, too. I have tried, I can do the following variant: - place all the python scripts into the script dir - create .exe files for the scripts - create an archive file containing python In this case, you will have only one python packaged , but several small scrits converted to .exe. A few converted scritps look like this: PYTHON23 DLL 979 005 05.02.08 16.23 python23.dll W9XPOPEN EXE 16 384 05.02.08 16.24 w9xpopen.exe LIBRARY ZIP 311 060 05.10.12 19.30 library.zip LYX2LYX EXE 40 960 05.10.12 19.30 lyx2lyx.exe GENERA~1 EXE 28 672 05.10.12 19.30 general_command_wrapper.exe PIC2AS~1 EXE 28 672 05.10.12 19.30 pic2ascii.exe So, they can use the same interpreter. This is my offer. -- Best regards, Alex mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
