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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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Building macOS executables with cx_Freeze

As with Windows, we need to work around a couple of issues to use cx_Freeze on macOS.

First, there is a problem when building projects that include numpy, which is a dependency of matplotlib. To work around it, you'll need a version newer than 6.0.b1; at the time of writing, that means installing it directly from GitHub.

This can be done with by executing the following command line:

pip install --user git+https://github.com/anthony-tuininga/cx-freeze

The second issue only happens if you've installed Python using the homebrew package manager (currently, this is the only way to get Python working with Tk 8.6 on macOS). cx_Freeze expects Python to be in /Library/Frameworks where the official installer ...

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