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vikash tiwari
vikash tiwari

Reputation: 109

Building a window application from the bunch of python files

I have written some bunch of python files and i want to make a window application from that. The structure looks like this: Say, a.py,b.py,c.py are there. a.by is the file which i want application to open and it is basically a GUI which has import commands for "b.py" and "c.py". I know this might be a very basic problem,but i have just started to packaging and deployment using python.Please tell me how to do that , or if is there any way to do it by py2exe and pyinstaller?

I have tried to do it by py2exe and pyinstaller from the info available on internet , but that seems to create the app which is running only "a.py" .It is not able to then use "b" and "c " as well.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2078

Answers (2)

crissal
crissal

Reputation: 2657

Python at least 3.5 - zipapp

Assuming this is your project tree,

<root_folder>
    | - a.py
    | - b.py
    | - c.py

you can rename a.py to __main__.py and then call from bash/cmd python -m zipapp <root_folder> in order to create a <root_folder>.pyz file.

This file is executable both with Windows and UNIX systems, and will package every module that lies inside your <root_folder>.

If you need to include libraries too, you have to call python -m pip install <libs> --target <root_folder> and, after, you call zipapp like shown above.

This is the documentation of zipapp.

Python at least 2.6 - zipfile

Since Python 2.6, you can create a zip file containing all your files (and __main__.py too, cause it's your entry point) and then run it in console launching

python <zip_name>.zip

Pay attention: your zip has to be structured like this

<zip_name>.zip
    | - __main__.py
    | - b.py
    | - c.py

Upvotes: 1

Diego
Diego

Reputation: 216

I am not sure on how you do this with py2exe. I have used py2app before which is very similar, but it is for Mac applications. For Mac there is a way to view the contents of the application. In here you can add the files you want into the resources folder (where you would put your 'b.py' and 'c.py').

I hope there is something like this in Windows and hope it helps.

Upvotes: 0

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