compile python to binary

[sam]

Hi,

I have seen some software written in python and delivered as binary form.

How does these binary code get generated by python compiler?

Thanks
Sam.

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

I have seen some software written in python and delivered as binary form.

How does these binary code get generated by python compiler?

see section 6.1.2 in the tutorial:

http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html

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[Daniel Bickett]

see section 6.1.2 in the tutorial:
[snip]

I believe Sam was talking about "frozen" python scripts using tools
such as py2exe:

http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/

As to how the actual process works, I'm not qualified to answer
(having only read an article in the linux magazine,) but I hope this
helps.

Daniel Bickett

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

I believe Sam was talking about "frozen" python scripts using tools
such as py2exe:

oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler".

here are links to some more tools, btw:

http://effbot.org/zone/python-compile.htm

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[Daniel Bickett]

oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler".
[snip]

I simply inferred that he was using the wrong terminology, being that
he said "binary" twice ;-)

I have seen some software written in python and delivered as binary form.

How does these binary code get generated by python compiler?

Daniel Bickett

 

[Doug Holton]

Daniel Bickett wrote:




oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler".

I wouldn't assume a novice uses terms the same way you would. It was
quite clear from his message that py2exe and the like were what he was
referring to, if you had read his first sentence:

"I have seen some software written in python and delivered as binary form."

 

[Peter Hansen]

oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler".
[snip]

I simply inferred that he was using the wrong terminology, being that
he said "binary" twice ;-)

While I suspect you've guessed correctly at what the OP
meant, one should also consider that the word "binary"
can be quite ambiguous in the hands of a newbie.

After all, source code is stored in binary too...

-Peter

 

[sam]

oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler".
[snip]

I simply inferred that he was using the wrong terminology, being that
he said "binary" twice ;-)

While I suspect you've guessed correctly at what the OP
meant, one should also consider that the word "binary"
can be quite ambiguous in the hands of a newbie.

After all, source code is stored in binary too...

Sorry for the vagues terms. I meant compile a python script into a
binary program.

Thanks
Sam

 

[sam]

Daniel Bickett wrote:




oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler".

here are links to some more tools, btw:

http://effbot.org/zone/python-compile.htm

Thanks for the link. It is what I exactly looking for.

Thanks
Sam

 

[sam]

Daniel Bickett wrote:




oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler".

here are links to some more tools, btw:

http://effbot.org/zone/python-compile.htm

Thanks for the link. It is what I exactly looking for.

Thanks
Sam

 

[Alex Martelli]

I wouldn't assume a novice uses terms the same way you would. It was
quite clear from his message that py2exe and the like were what he was
referring to, if you had read his first sentence:

"I have seen some software written in python and delivered as binary form."

Sorry, Doug, not clear to me. I have seen, for example, some games
delivered with binary files with names such as something.pyc -- and
those ARE binary files made by the python compiler.


Alex

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

oh, you mean that "python compiler" didn't mean "the python compiler".
[snip]

I simply inferred that he was using the wrong terminology, being that
he said "binary" twice ;-)

yeah, but PYC files (which is what the standard compiler produces) are binary
files too, in all the usual senses of that word -- and it's not that uncommon that
people ship Python programs as a bunch of EXEs/DLLs (or equivalents), and
PYC files.

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[Peter Hansen]

Sorry for the vagues terms. I meant compile a python script into a
binary program.

As I said, "binary" is a very ambiguous term, so your
clarification by itself wouldn't have helped. (That is,
while the defined meaning is fairly precise, many people
use "binary" to mean something different.)

Anyway, the phrase you were actually looking for is
"stand-alone executable". That's what py2exe and the
like produce, and that's what distinguishes what you want
from, for example, what some suggested in the first place.
(In a Windows-only environment, asking "how do I create
an EXE" would pretty much mean the same thing.)

-Peter