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acarolinepassos
acarolinepassos

Reputation: 13

Why is my exe script so heavy? (Pyinstaller)

The libs which I use:

import os, sys
import subprocess
import shutil
from docx import *
from django.utils.encoding import smart_text
import xlrd
from pdfminer import *
import textract
import pandas as pd
from pptx import Presentation
from tika import parser

What can I do to reduce the exe size? My spec file:

a = Analysis(['tryhard.py'],
             pathex=['C:\\poppler-0.67.0\\bin'],
             binaries=[],
             datas=[],
             hiddenimports=['textract.parsers.txt_parser', 'textract.parsers.pdf_parser', 'textract.parsers.docx_parser', 'textract.parsers.odt_parser', 'pandas._libs.tslibs.timedeltas'],
             hookspath=[],
             runtime_hooks=[],
             excludes=['numpy'],
             win_no_prefer_redirects=False,
             win_private_assemblies=False,
             cipher=block_cipher,
             noarchive=False)

Command pyinstaller -F --clean --onedir myspecfile.spec generates 3 folders with 4GB size.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 245

Answers (1)

John Anderson
John Anderson

Reputation: 38892

Look in the generated folders for things you don't need, then specify them in the excludes line of your spec file. For example, I don't use Tcl, Tk or Tkinter, so my excludes looks like:

excludes=['FixTk', 'tcl', 'tk', '_tkinter', 'tkinter', 'Tkinter'],

Pyinstaller includes the kitchen sink, just in case. Anything that you can be sure is not needed can be excluded using excludes. That will reduce the size (my final size for a one-file app is 63MB).

Here is a similar question about excludes.

Upvotes: 1

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