Nate Silva wrote:
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On 3/22/06 9:51 AM, "Tim Roberts" <timr@probo.com> wrote:
All of the so-called "standalone executable"
packages are essentially intelligent zip files that expand themselves
into a directory full of stuff and then launch the interpreter. That's
how Python works.Is that what py2exe does? When I tested pyInstaller, I could see files being
created in the %TEMP% directory, but when I used py2exe I didn't see any
tempfiles.
Yes. It uses a build subdir to do its work. Py2exe, in theory, can create one single zip file that contains everything. But in practice there is usually more than one file because of needing to include stuff like msvcrt.dll.
Py2exe works very well. I use it all the time. I've not used PyInstaller, so can't compare.
Michael