Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

How to do it...

1. Write your Python program.
2. To create a Windows .exe file, create a setup.py file to tell the libraries what you want to do. This is mainly importing the setup() function from the Distutils library, importing py2exe, and then calling setup and telling it what type of application it is making, for example, a console, and what the main Python file is. py2exe_setup.py, following, is an example from the documentation of a setup.py file:

      from distutils.core import setup
      import py2exe
      setup(console=['hello.py'])

3. Run the setup script by calling python setup.py py2exe. This creates two directories: build/ and dist/. The dist/ directory is where the new files are placed, while build/ is used for temporary files during the creation ...