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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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Using cx_Freeze

While source and wheel distributions are useful, they both require Python and any necessary library dependencies to be installed on a system before the program can be run. Often, it would be much handier if we could provide a file or set of files that can simply be copied and run on a system without installing anything else first. Better yet, we'd like to have platform-specific installation packages that set up shortcuts and other data.

There are several ways to go about this with Python code, and several projects to choose from; we're going to look at one called cx_Freeze.

The basic idea of cx_Freeze is to bundle up all the code and shared library files for a Python project along with a Python interpreter, and then generate ...

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