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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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The build_exe options

Arguments to specific cx_Freeze operations can be passed into setup() using the options argument. This argument takes a dict object where each item is a cx_Freeze operation paired with a dict object of operation-specific arguments. The first operation we're going to look as is build_exe, which is a universal first step for all other operations. As the name implies, this is the stage where the executable and its accompanying files are built.

Among other things, this is where we specify the package dependencies:

    options={
        'build_exe': {
            'packages': ['psycopg2', 'requests', 'matplotlib', 'numpy'],
            'includes': ['idna.idnadata', 'zlib'],

In the preceding code snippet, packages is a list of the packages that need to be installed ...

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