How can py2exe help shipping emedded Python projects

An embedded Python project relies on several modules. Finding these modules is very easy using py2exe.

Create a setup.py script with the following lines:

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup()

And then run it with your script in the command line

python setup.py py2exe --includes mymodule

This will create a dist directory with all the files your embedded python needs. Rename library.zip to python23.zip and place all the files in the application directory.

Miki <miki.tebeka@zoran.com>