http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/squisher/0.3
I've posted the third version of my experimental packaging program Squisher. Squisher can take a directory representing a Python package (i.e. a directory with __init__.py) and "squish" it into a single .pyc file that you can import, or run on the command line, just like any other .py/.pyc file. The hook is that it can be thus imported *without* necessarily having Squisher itself installed. All you do is run Squisher on a directory (or an existing zip file if you wish), and you get a single file you can import with any normal Python installation. It is complementary to Eggs in a way. They're good for having packages globally installed and keeping them up-to-date, but very often you may want the simple convenience of dropping a .pyc in a directory and importing it. Furthermore, since Squished packages are just zip files with a special Python bytecode header (and Eggs are just zipfiles with internal metadata added), you can actually run it on an Egg and get a file that can be used as an Egg *or* a Squished package just by renaming it. Try it out... I've found it useful so far. It is still pretty experimental, so I wouldn't advise using it as a serious packaging mechanism yet, but I hope that with time it will become very stable and complete. Bug reports/patches welcome. -- Changelog for anyone who tried the previous releases: - Added a couple of patches courtesy of Gary Duzan -- a Python 2.3 compatibility fix, and a fix for importing compiled modules when running a .pyc from the command line. - Changed from GPL to BSD license. Also clarified that the generated bytecode is considered public domain. - It now detects if you pass it an already-squished module -- if so, it will simply update the bytecode header if necessary. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
