On Feb 19, 4:42 pm, "W. eWatson" <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote: > On 2/19/2010 10:56 AM, CM wrote: > > > On Feb 19, 12:21 pm, "W. eWatson"<wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote: > >> On 2/19/2010 7:16 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:> Andre Engels wrote: > >>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Mark Lawrence > >>>> <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >>>>> Andre Engels wrote: > >>>>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:20 PM, W. eWatson<wolftra...@invalid.com> > > >> ... > >> tories, or even the whole hard drive, for snowball.*. Then the OP> would > >> know exactly what he has or hasn't got. > > >>> HTH. > > >>> Mark Lawrence > > >> Here's the answer. Consider this folder. > > >> Afolder > >> abc.py > >> hello.py > > >> I now apply py2exe steps to produce an "executable" for abc. The folder > >> now changes to > > >> Afolder > >> build > >> dist > >> abc.py > >> hello.py > > >> build are two new folders. dist contains abc.exe. > > >> Somehow when I type abc at the command prompt, this follows a path to > >> dist, and finds abc.exe, where it executes properly. > >> Cute, eh? I have no explanation for it. > > > Are you sure it's executing abc.exe? If you are at a Python command > > prompt within the "DOS shell" and you just type just abc, I think what > > is happening is you are running abc.py, NOT abc.exe. > > > py2exe creates a dist folder (short for "distributables") by default > > and puts your .exe into it along with whatever other files are needed > > to run your application. Depending on how you set the bundling > > options, this may be a lot of things or just 1-2 other things. > > > Che > > Well, you are right. What proof do I have? In fact, I just tried to run > a program that was not converted, and left off py. It worked. > > So maybe the only way to execute the compiled code is to to to dist?
Not sure about that last question, but just try double-clicking on the .exe file in dist and your app should run. In fact, copy that dist folder to a flash drive, plug it into another computer that doesn't have Python installed on it, and doubleclick it again--it'll run again. In fact, depending on how you bundled it, you might need only the .exe file on many computers that have the Windows dlls already available. Che -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
