Creating an Executable from a Python Script

Python is one of my favorite programming languages. That being said, if you've ever had to deploy an application written in Python then you know just how painful it can be.

Fortunately, there are some pretty awesome open-source tools that can be used to package a Python program into a standalone binary executable that contains everything needed to run the application (i.e. Python interpreter, program code, libraries, data, etc.).

Cython_C-Extentions_for_Python

http://cython.org

About Cython

Cython is an optimising static compiler for both the Pythonprogramming language and the extended Cython programming language (based on Pyrex). It makes writing C extensions for Python as easy as Python itself.

Cython gives you the combined power of Python and C to let you

• write Python code that calls back and forth from and to C or C++ code natively at any point.
• easily tune readable Python code into plain C performance by adding static type declarations.
• use combined source code level debugging to find bugs in your Python, Cython and C code.
• interact efficiently with large data sets, e.g. using multi-dimensional NumPy arrays.
• quickly build your applications within the large, mature and widely used CPython ecosystem.
• integrate natively with existing code and data from legacy, low-level or high-performance libraries and applications.