py2exe turns Python programs into packages that can be run on other Windows computers without needing to install Python on those computers. You must run py2exe on a Windows …

py2exe is a Python Distutils extension which converts Python scripts into executable Windows programs, able to run without requiring a Python installation. Development is hosted on …

How does py2exe decide which modules you need? To determine which modules should go in the final .exe file, py2exe does a recursive search of the script that you are packaging to find its …

Jun 15, 2008 · py2exe uses python's modulefinder to examine your script and find all python and extension modules needed to run it. Pure python modules are compiled into .pyc or .pyo files …

Sorry, you can't. py2exe works only on Windows computers, not on any other operating system.

How does py2exe work and what are all those files? Let's start from the needed results going back to how py2exe does its job.

When run, that single file executable will expand the original executable created by py2exe along with all the dll, pyd, and data files for your application into a temporary directory and run it.

The setup syntax py2exe uses is inherited from distutils. (If you choose the default Windows installation for python, distutils can be found at: C:/Program Files/Python##/Lib/distutils/). The …

py2exe automatically includes the entire encodings library in the distribution. If you're absolutely sure you won't need to deal with Unicode (or any kind of encoding) you can specify ascii=True, …

The py2exe distribution contains a sample named hello.py together with a setup script to build an executable. The script can be used to explore the differences in the runtime environments …