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I'm a beginner using python and when I found out about pygame and how cool it was I immediately started learning it. I recently finished a simple game and I want to make a desktop icon that I can click to run the script rather than having to open pycharm and click the run button. If there is a way to just run the script by clicking a desktop icon that would be awesome. Any suggestions?

Camden Hiley
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  • PyCharm is only for creating code - when code is ready then you can run in console `python script.py`. And on Windows you can assing extension `.py` to program `python` and it will run script when you click file .py. On Linux you may use `shebang` in first line `#!/usr/bin/env python` and set it executable `chmod +x script.py` and then you can click it to run with python. You don't have to create .exe for this (if you run on your computer with installed Python). `.exe` can be useful when you want to send it to someone else (which don't have Python). – furas May 11 '22 at 17:04

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Welcome to Stack Overflow. There appear to be several packages that achieve this, but from this post, cx_Freeze seems to be easy to implement.

It creates an executable (.exe) from your Python code. Assuming you're using Windows, this should be the implementation:

from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable

base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
    base = "Win32GUI"

setup(
    name="app_name",
    version="0.1",
    description="app_description",
    executables=[Executable("app_file.py", base=base)],
)
y_arjun_y
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