On: Changing the Culture of Python at Facebook [video]

[justinsaccount]

See also https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex

I've had great success using pex to bundle up tools that use a few dependencies. It's a lot simpler than tools that try to bundle a full python distribution.

[voltagex_ → justinsaccount]

I wonder why someone hasn't built a simple loader for Windows that wraps pex in an exe with pythonxy.dll. You'd pretty much solve distribution of Python scripts on Windows.

[sandGorgon → voltagex_]

there are lots of projects that do this - we had a QT app with embedded cherrypy that we bundled using cx_freeze.

Worked in production at a hundred different merchants

[voltagex_ → sandGorgon]

https://sourceforge.net/p/cx-freeze/mailman/message/34695906...

And PyInstaller is quite complicated.