How do you make an installer for your python program

python installation cross-platform python-3.2
Malcolm2608 picture Malcolm2608 · Apr 1, 2012 · Viewed 15.7k times · Source

Im new to python, but I was thinking about making a program with python to give to my friends. They don't know much about computers so if I asked them to install python by them selves they couldn't do it, but what if I could make an installer that downloads some version of python that only has what is needed for my file to run and make an exe file that would run the .py file in its own python interpreter . I also did a Google search and saw the freezing applications I could use to make the code into exe files to distribute (cx_freeze I use python 3.2), but not all of my friends have Windows computers and I rather Have my program so in each new version it auto updates by making a patch to .py file and not completely re-installing it .

** I am not looking for anything to make a stand alone executable . Just some kind of installer that bundles a minimalistic version of the python version your using . And an option to have an exe that is just a link to run the python file in the portable python interpreter, just for windows and a .sh file that would do the same for linux.

Answer

Prof. Falken picture Prof. Falken · Aug 27, 2015

I am shocked that no answer mentions that py2exe now supports both Python 2.x and Python 3.x

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/py2exe#downloads

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