I have a python script I want to pack into .exe file for the ease of use. The python script makes extensive use of Tkinter module for nice GUI. I've packed it first into .exe using pyinstaller and the guide outlied here - https://datatofish.com/executable-pyinstaller/
I have two problems. First is that my script makes use of FlowCal module, which doesn't come with Python's pyinstaller (I've made script using Spyder, and I'm using Python 3.8. to compile using pyinstaller) - so I installed FlowCal with pip install FlowCal so Python gets it too (I think that's how it works? Not too sure). But then FlowCal is dependent on various sklearn modules, and it would be a headache to install modules, compile to exe, then check if it works over and over. Is there a way that ALL modules script uses (and ALL modules that imported modules use) are compiled into the script?
Second problem is that alongside GUI I get another window. Picture included. How do I remove that window?
Another thing you can do without any hassle is using auto-py-to-exe. This will generate .exe from .py with writing command, just clicking some buttons in a GUI. For this, you have to give the command: pip install auto-py-to-exe in command prompt or PowerShell, whatever you like most. After successfully installing auto-py-to-exe, give the command auto-py-to-exe in your command prompt. Then give the necessary informations, and get your generated executable file!
Add the missing modules to the hiddenimports
hiddenimports=['sklearn.neighbors.typedefs','sklearn.neighbors.quad_tree','sklearn.tree._utils']
Or use it when you create the exe in cmd as
--hidden-import=modulename
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I’ve recently tried making an .exe from my .py file.
(This is my first time making a .exe)
It’s a long script and includes this cool function.
If I compile this to a .exe
It works just fine on the PC I code on, but not on another PC. Which makes me believe there is something missing during the pip installer ?
To compile this script I need to have ctypes Installed,
and in the cmd say: pyinstaller filename.py
Am I missing something ?
I don't have any error to show unfortunately, it just stays blank after it tries to run wait_until_idle.
The most trusted/automated way that I found to make an exe out of python code is this package:
https://pypi.org/project/auto-py-to-exe/
I tested it myself on multiple situations with whole projects not just single/small scripts.
The main disadvantage of this is the size of the exe file, it's really big and specially if you are using external libraries like pandas, numpy could easily make your exe pass 100 Mega bytes.
It's a simple graphical UI that you could use to generate exe, There is no external dependencies you need to install separately.
I'm trying to run pyinstaller in python exe file in order to someone without python can use pyinstaller but no idea how to do it.
I tried import PyInstaller with other needed modules and convert this script to exe but I got error "The 'PyInstaller' distribution was not found and is required by the application". I also tried to pack PyInstaller exe file but didn't worked too. Python 3.6.5
Any ideas how to do it?
Unfortunately, what you're describing is not possible with PyInstaller. I submitted an issue on GitHub, and this is what one of the developers said:
Nope, this won't work.
PyInstaller internally uses a lot of sub-processes where it is assumed that sys.executable points to a python interpreter (e.g., here); this is not true in a frozen application, where it points to the frozen executable, which ends up in effectively endless recursion.
Even if this was not a problem, the frozen application includes only a subset of python environment, so it cannot be used to freeze an arbitrary script (not to mention the issue of 3rd party packages).
So whatever use case you have for this, it cannot be supported by PyInstaller.
check the requirements for the Pyinstaller from this link initially
https://pythonhosted.org/PyInstaller/requirements.html
Then install Pyinstaller by,
pip install pyinstaller
To create .exe file use this command for basically,
pyinstaller your_script.py
To run the created .exe
METHOD 1
Do double click the .exe file in your directory.
METHOD 2
In your cmd prompt load in to your current directory or project directory then do
: .\dist\your_script.exe
because the create .exe files are saved in dist folder inside to the project folder with the name of your script file names only.
I have never made an executable application before but from what I have read its pretty easy, using py2exe to generate the exe.
But I have a GUI that uses Selenium to scrape data from a backend (No I can not use API calls). How do I add chromedriver to the executable? Also, would all the imports go along when using a compiler?
When you compile a .py file into an .exe (from my personal experience) all of the imports are included.
I would personally suggest using pyinstaller. I had quite a few problems using py2exe and as a beginner I found pyinstaller much more user-friendly and easier to troubleshoot.
As compiling a file does not alter the .py file, I would suggest getting it to a fully working state and trying it. If it doesn't appear to work or if some of the imports are lost, we can troubleshoot with the error code.
You can also use cx_Freeze to create an executable from your python script.
You can install cx_Freeze by issuing the command
python -m pip install cx_Freeze --upgrade
in a cmd prompt / terminal.
As far as tkinter is concerned, you'll find a working example of how to freeze a tkinter-based application with the current version of cx_Freeze in this answer. In the setup.py script you find there, you need to replace the name of the Executable by the name of your main script. Place this setup.pyin the same directory than your main script and run
python setup.py build
from a cmd prompt / terminal.
As far as chromedriver is concerned, I've no experience, if you choose this approach and still have problems, please add the exact error message and a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example to your question.
My goal is to have a python script that I can giving to someone to run on their windows machine that does not have python installed. I do want to package it up in an exe because I want the underlying code to be easily read.
I am updating an old VBscript and I want to mirror it. I am also using a few libraries.
use pyinstaller to package it up to an exe. You can still maintain your source code. Packaging it up wont remove your source code.
I've been searching through SO for a while now trying to come up with an answer to this but due to my inexperience with programming I don't understand much of the documentation, nor am I confident enough to experiment too much.
Would anyone be able to describe in slightly simpler terms how I would use programs like Py2exe, PyInstaller, cx_freeze etc.? I just want a way for others (mainly friends) to be able to run my (simple, text only) program without having to download python themselves. If there is an easier way to do this I'd appreciate knowing that too.
Running Vista 32bit, python 2.7
There are two distinct ways of freezing python scripts to create executables:
Packing the interpreter and *.pyc files into one exe file-container. Such an approach is used by tools like PyInstaller, Py2exe, cx_freeze.
Creating native code from Python source, usually using a middle step of converting Python-source to C or C++ code. This is done by such tools as Shed-skin and Nuitka. The problem of this aproach is that such tools do not always support all the functionality of Python (e.g. they can have some typing limitations and so on)
The point where you have to start is reading the documentation. Such tools are not just push-and-run style tools, they usually have some configuration that must be implemented (that's the problem of possibly all build systems, and as the project grows, the configuration and number of hooks also grows).
You can start with Py2exe tutorial and 'hello-world' to get acquainted with that how compilation is done. As far as I know it's a simplest way to get your goal.
And the last thing, you can't create cross-platform native executables as their file formats are strongly operating system and hardware dependent.
Download py2exe
Download this msvcp90.dll
Copy your FileCode.py AND msvcp90.dll to C:\Python27\
In C:\Python27\ create new text file, then enter this code inside it:
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(console=['Avril.py'])
Replace Avril.py with YourFileName.py
Save the file as setup.txt
Open CMD and type this:
cd C:\Python27\
python setup.txt py2exe
Now go to C:\Python27\dist\ and there's your .exe program.
Source: Manvir Singh
Python scripts can be made directly executable, like shell scripts, by putting the python environment path in the top of the script file.
#!/usr/bin/env python3.5
The Python installer automatically associates .py files with python.exe so that a double-click on a Python file will run it as a script. The extension can also be .pyw, in that case, the console window that normally appears is suppressed.
Detailed description also for linux is here.
Install pyinstaller, a program that converts .py to .exe for python 2.7 to where python is located:
cd C:\python27\scripts
pip install pyinstaller
then move whatever python file you want to compile to C:\python27\scripts, compile from there by using:
pyinstaller --onefile yourfile.py
the --onefile is optional but it packages the whole thing(in this example yourfile.py) into one .exe. Once everything is done there will be 2 new folders along with a .spec file. From C:\python27\scripts open the folder dist. Your .exe will be located there in one file which you can double tap to execute and distribute to anyone who doesn't have python. Hope it helps.