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globular-toast on Sept 9, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust for the small things? but what about Python?

This is what pyinstaller is for. It's not quite as good as a binary executable, although are you really sending ad hoc binaries to people? Seems like a nightmare for version control etc. The pyinstaller manual is much easier than learning rust!

judge2020 on Sept 9, 2024 [–]

PyInstaller does have --onefile but that's kind of cheating since it creates and extracts the files to a temp folder.

relaxing on Sept 9, 2024 | [–]

It’s not cheating at all. It’s an inelegant solution, but it works.

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