Is there any way to package all python dependency into single executable

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We are shipping our product to customers location who may or may not have python and other libraries installed, so can we reduce our python script into an independent executable with python and other required libraries included , so are there other ideas ?

Depends on the operating system. Windows has py2exe, for example. — BoppreH, Dec 03 '13 at 18:05

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 03 '13 at 18:08

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You can use py2exe it does exactly what you need, and its very easy to use. I have used it on one of my projects which are online and used daily.

http://www.py2exe.org/

and here is their tutorial:

http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Tutorial

answered Dec 03 '13 at 18:08

Yousef_Shamshoum

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i see no mention of linux :( – Dec 03 '13 at 18:12

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

You can deliver a package with Python and then apply one of these two methods:

Package With python + virtualenv

There's many solutions for that. One I like is virtualenv, which can allow you to deploy a specific configuration of a Python project (with dependencies) on another machines.

Package With python + pip

Another way is to use pip and write a requirements.txt file at the root of your project, which contains every dependency (1 per line), for example:

django>=1.5.4
pillow
markdown
django-compressor

By doing pip -r requirements.txt in the root dir, the program will install packages needed.

Is there any way to package all python dependency into single executable

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Package With python + virtualenv

Package With python + pip

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