April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
646 pages
16h 48m
English
Content preview from Expert Python Programming - Third Edition
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PyInstaller
PyInstaller (http://www.pyinstaller.org/) is by far the most advanced program to freeze Python packages into standalone executables. It provides the most extensive multiplatform compatibility among every available solution at the moment, so it is the most highly recommended one. PyInstaller supports the following platforms:
- Windows (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Linux (32-bit and 64-bit)
- macOS (32-bit and 64-bit)
- FreeBSD, Solaris, and AIX
Supported versions of Python are Python 2.7 and Python 3.3, 3.4, and 3.5. It is available on PyPI, so it can be installed in your working environment using pip. If you have problems installing it this way, you can always download the installer from the project's page.
Unfortunately, cross-platform building ...