On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 5:00 PM Palash Bauri <palashbau...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am developing a parser with PLY and was hoping to distribute it to users. > Ofcourse there're plenty of Ways to build a executable of an Python script > such as PyInstaller , Py2Exe and some others, but they have their problems > , one of them which is their output distribution size is huge, a simple > "hello world" program would even cost user 30 to 50+ megabytes of storage. > Distributing on Linux is not that much of hassle with snap packages or even > Appimages. But on windows it's a mess. > > But Python Embeddable Zip seems promising to me, it's very lightweight. > > But the thing is I couldn't figure out how to build a "launcher" (As > mentioned here -> https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html) for my > application? > > Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated. >
Try creating a .pyz file using the zipapp module: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html It should 'just work', out of the box. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
