On May 17, 3:23 pm, Mike Driscoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 17, 4:42 am, eliben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > I'm getting into Python now after years of Perl, and as part of my > > research I must understand how to do some common tasks I need. > > > I have a bunch of Windows PCs at work to which I want to distribute an > > application I've developed on my PC. All these PCs have Python 2.5 > > installed. > > > If my application contains only code I've developed, I simply zip its > > directory with .py files and send it to everyone, who can then use it > > by running the entry-point .py file. However, what if I've installed > > some 3rd party modules on my PC, and my application uses them (for > > example pyparsing, PiYAML and some others) ? I don't want to manually > > install all these packages (there may be dozens of them) on all those > > PCs (there may be dozens of those too). What is the best method I can > > use ? Naturally, I want all the non-standard packages my app uses to > > be detected automatically and collected into some kind of convenient > > distributable that is easy to pass around and run. > > > I'm aware of py2exe - tried it and it works fine. But it creates huge > > executables, and I don't want to distribute those all the time. I much > > prefer a zipped directory of .py scripts that takes some 10s of KBs. > > > Thanks in advance, > > Eli > > You might want to check out Buildout. It allows you to run all that > stuff in it's own virtual world, so to speak. I'm planning on playing > with it this week. >
I looked at its examples and I'm not sure it's what I need. It seems useful for other cases though. > Also, there's this site which has collected the various means of > distributing Python apps: > > http://www.freehackers.org/Packaging_a_python_program > This page only talks about the packagers that create .exe files that don't need Python installed. Is there a simple way to find out which packages are used by my script ? Eli -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
