Re: making executables smaller

2016-07-27 Thread Daniel Bradburn
A couple of things you can try: * Generate a directory rather than onefile, on the directory you can apply du -hs * | sort -h -r (or treesize if you are using windows https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free) to see which folders / files are taking up a lot of space. Then once you see what is ta

Re: making executables smaller

2016-07-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wednesday 27 July 2016 14:52, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote: > Carter Temm wrote: > >> I’m writing a couple different projects at the moment, and when I compile >> it into a single executable using pyinstaller, it becomes extremely large. >> I’m guessing this is because of the modules used.

Re: making executables smaller

2016-07-27 Thread Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
Carter Temm wrote: > I’m writing a couple different projects at the moment, and when I compile > it into a single executable using pyinstaller, it becomes extremely large. > I’m guessing this is because of the modules used. Because I’m not that > skilled at python, I put stuff like for example, im

Re: making executables smaller

2016-07-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 03:22 am, Carter Temm wrote: > Hi, > I’m writing a couple different projects at the moment, and when I compile > it into a single executable using pyinstaller, it becomes extremely large. What do you consider "extremely large"? Ten gigabytes? 500 kilobytes? Give us a clue. >

Re: making executables smaller

2016-07-26 Thread Carter Temm
OK. So I guess the question should be, how can I make these executables smaller in general? Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 26, 2016, at 5:13 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:22:16 -0500, Carter Temm > declaimed the following: > >> Hi, >> I’m writing a couple different pr

Re: making executables smaller

2016-07-26 Thread Wildman via Python-list
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:22:16 -0500, Carter Temm wrote: > Hi, > I’m writing a couple different projects at the moment, and when I > compile it into a single executable using pyinstaller, it becomes > extremely large. I’m guessing this is because of the modules used. > Because I’m not that skilled a

making executables smaller

2016-07-26 Thread Carter Temm
Hi, I’m writing a couple different projects at the moment, and when I compile it into a single executable using pyinstaller, it becomes extremely large. I’m guessing this is because of the modules used. Because I’m not that skilled at python, I put stuff like for example, import sys. I imagine t