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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter
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Python GUI Programming with Tkinter

by Alan D. Moore
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
452 pages
11h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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First steps with cx_Freeze

Install cx_Freeze using pip as shown in the following command:

pip install --user cx-Freeze

Like setuptools, cx_Freeze is an extension of distutils; it shares many similarities with setuptools, but solves certain problems in different ways. Just like setuptools, we'll start with a script in the project directory that calls the setup() function.

To distinguish this script from our setuptools script, call it cxsetup.py, and enter the following code:

import cx_Freeze as cx

cx.setup(
    name='ABQ_Data_Entry',
    version='1.0',
    author='Alan D Moore',
    author_email='alandmoore@example.com',
    description='Data entry application for ABQ Agrilabs',
    url="http://abq.example.com",
    packages=['abq_data_entry'],

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