Reducing size of pyinstaller exe

Question

I have a simple pandas pyinstaller exe which is over 40MB.

My exe example:

import collections
import csv
import selenium
import pandas

print(\'hi\')         


        

Answer 1

I use the Anaconda environment and so the virtualenv solution isn't an option. my way was to exclude unnecessary modules in my spec file, ex.:

in Analysis(...)

excludes=['pandas', 'numpy'],

(this are modules whose raise the size of the files extraordinarily)

For every build i'm using this adjusted spec file to create the exe.

pyinstaller "mySpec.spec" --distpath=""