PyInstaller with Pandas creates over 500 MB exe

Question

I try to create an exe file using PyInstaller 3.2.1, for test purpose I tried to make an exe for following code:

import pandas as pd
print(\'hello world\')
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Answer 1

This is probably because the Anaconda version of numpy is built using mkl.

If you want to reduce the size of the distributable, you could work with a seperate building virtual environment with the packages installed through pip instead of conda