cx-freeze

I've noticed that pytz misses zoneinfo folder when I try to roll a zip for Windows. Right now I have a workaround that I use after python setup.py build , namely 7z a -xr!*.py* build\exe.win32-2.7\library.zip C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\pytz Is there a proper way to achieve that from setup.py or something? You could fix this, adding the following method: def include_files(): path_base = "C:\\Python27\\Lib\\site-packages\\pytz\\zoneinfo\\" skip_count = len(path_base) zip_includes = [(path_base, "pytz/zoneinfo/")] for root, sub_folders, files in os.walk(path_base): for file_in_root in files:

This has come up quite a few times on the cx_Freeze mailing lists (see cx_Freeze and moving files around Creating fewer files when freezing a Python application cx_freeze python single file? ) and it seems to me like it ought to be a simple fix, but I can't see how to begin. I have a python application that depends on scipy, wxpython, numpy and a bunch of other packages that each have a LOT of dynamically linked libraries. The main executable folder gets very cluttered with PYD and DLL files and it is hard to even find the executable amongst all the files. My users are not particularly

I've developed a Python application that runs both in the GUI mode and the console mode. If any arguments are specified, it runs in a console mode else it runs in the GUI mode. I've managed to freeze this using cx_Freeze. I had some problems hiding the black console window that would pop up with wxPython and so I modified my setup.py script like this: import sys from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable base = None if sys.platform == "win32": base = "Win32GUI" setup( name = "simple_PyQt4", version = "0.1", description = "Sample cx_Freeze PyQt4 script", executables = [Executable("PyQt4app.py",

I've been searching through SO for a while now trying to come up with an answer to this but due to my inexperience with programming I don't understand much of the documentation, nor am I confident enough to experiment too much. Would anyone be able to describe in slightly simpler terms how I would use programs like Py2exe, PyInstaller, cx_freeze etc.? I just want a way for others (mainly friends) to be able to run my (simple, text only) program without having to download python themselves. If there is an easier way to do this I'd appreciate knowing that too. Running Vista 32bit, python 2.7