py2exe is a
Python
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Computing
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extension which converts Python scripts (.py) into
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executable
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s (.exe). These executables can run on a system without Python installed. It is the most common tool for doing so.
py2exe was used to distribute
the official BitTorrent client (before the version 6.0) and is still used to distribute
SpamBayes
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as well as other projects.
Since May 2014, version 0.9.2.0 of py2exe is available for Python 3.
Before then, py2exe was made only for Python 2,
and it was necessary to use an alternative like cx_Freeze for Python 3 code.
Although this program transforms a .py file to an .exe, it does not make it run faster because py2exe bundles the Python bytecode without converting it to machine-code. It may even run slower than using the Python interpreter directly because of startup overhead.
References
External links
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Alternative: PyInstaller(also supports Linux, Mac OS X, and other platforms)
Alternative: cx_Freeze(supports all platforms that Python itself works on)
Programming tools for Windows
Python (programming language) software
Software using the MIT license
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