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py2exe – generate single executable file

A friend of mine managed to pack some a Ruby script he wrote in a single exe file. When I tried to do the same thing for a Python script, with py2exe, I also got several pyd files and a dll.

Is it possible to pack a Python script with all it’s DLL’s and pyd files into just one exe, and get rid of the other files?

Answer 1

According to py2exe.org:

The –bundle or -b command line switch will create less files because binary extensions, runtime dlls, and even the Python-dll itself is bundled into the executable itself, or inside the library-archive if you prefer that.

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Using a level of 1 includes the .pyd and .dll files into the zip-archive or the executable itself, and does the same for pythonXY.dll. The advantage is that you only need to distribute one file per exe, which will however be quite large.

There’s also another little tutorial on creating a single exe which will expand DLLs into a temporary directory at runtime, then delete the tempdir when Python exits.