Re: compile python to binary

2005-01-24 Thread Peter Hansen
sam wrote: Peter Hansen wrote: After all, source code is stored in binary too... Sorry for the vagues terms. I meant compile a python script into a binary program. As I said, "binary" is a very ambiguous term, so your clarification by itself wouldn't have helped. (That is, while the defined meani

Re: compile python to binary

2005-01-24 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Daniel Bickett wrote: >> oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler". >> [snip] > > I simply inferred that he was using the wrong terminology, being that > he said "binary" twice ;-) yeah, but PYC files (which is what the standard compiler produces) are binary files too,

Re: compile python to binary

2005-01-24 Thread Alex Martelli
Doug Holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler". > > I wouldn't assume a novice uses terms the same way you would. It was > quite clear from his message that py2exe and the like were what he was > referring to, if you had rea

Re: compile python to binary

2005-01-23 Thread sam
Peter Hansen wrote: Daniel Bickett wrote: Fredrik Lundh wrote: oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler". [snip] I simply inferred that he was using the wrong terminology, being that he said "binary" twice ;-) While I suspect you've guessed correctly at what the OP mea

Re: compile python to binary

2005-01-23 Thread sam
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Daniel Bickett wrote: I believe Sam was talking about "frozen" python scripts using tools such as py2exe: oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler". here are links to some more tools, btw: http://effbot.org/zone/python-compile.htm Thanks for th

Re: compile python to binary

2005-01-23 Thread Peter Hansen
Daniel Bickett wrote: Fredrik Lundh wrote: oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler". [snip] I simply inferred that he was using the wrong terminology, being that he said "binary" twice ;-) While I suspect you've guessed correctly at what the OP meant, one should also co

Re: compile python to binary

2005-01-23 Thread Doug Holton
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Daniel Bickett wrote: I believe Sam was talking about "frozen" python scripts using tools such as py2exe: oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler". I wouldn't assume a novice uses terms the same way you would. It was quite clear from his message

Re: compile python to binary

2005-01-23 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Daniel Bickett wrote: > I believe Sam was talking about "frozen" python scripts using tools > such as py2exe: oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler". here are links to some more tools, btw: http://effbot.org/zone/python-compile.htm -- http://mail.python

Re: compile python to binary

2005-01-23 Thread Daniel Bickett
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler". > [snip] I simply inferred that he was using the wrong terminology, being that he said "binary" twice ;-) sam wrote: > I have seen some software written in python and delivered as binary form. > > How do

Re: compile python to binary

2005-01-23 Thread Daniel Bickett
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > see section 6.1.2 in the tutorial: > [snip] I believe Sam was talking about "frozen" python scripts using tools such as py2exe: http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ As to how the actual process works, I'm not qualified to answer (having only read an article in t

Re: compile python to binary

2005-01-23 Thread Fredrik Lundh
"sam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen some software written in python and delivered as binary form. > > How does these binary code get generated by python compiler? see section 6.1.2 in the tutorial: http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/list