clanotheduck

Ok, I have been programming in C++ for a while, and I recently started learning Python because Blender uses it as its script language.

As I have been learning Python, I have been making silly little programs I would like to share with my firends, yet many of them do not have Python installed.

I've seen all of these things that say that they turn your Python scripts into .exe files. Yet none of them actually DO that, it always has some sort of confusing system that is rather anouying.

I have a C++ compiler that makes .exe files. And thats really all I want, a pure and simple .exe file.

So I was wondering if there was anyway to turn Python script into C++ code for me to compile into a .exe file. Perhaps some sort of program might do this.

If there is no way for that to happen, is there any simple way for a noob Python programmer to make a pure and simple .exe file?

If you want to know how noobish I am, I just finished learning the "while" and "if" statements... yeah.

Thanks to anyone who helps!

I'm farely sure this belongs in the Python forum.

Polyphemus_

Converting a python file to a C++ file? Forget it.. python is high level, C++ is low level.. that's a huge difference.

the trick of creating an automatically running python file is including the interpretter and the python files in one file. There are probably lots of tool on the net for that.

Infinite Recursion

That's the problem with Python, you have to distribute the interpreter with your code.

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tempest

That's the easiest type of conversion to do, from a high level language to a lower level. As opposed to making assembly, or binary, into C/C++, or dare i say it BASIC. I'm sure there is a way to write a program in C/C++ that could take the open source python interpreter and combine it with C++ resources so that instead of loading the source from a file it would already be loaded into the program. Has to be possible, just hasn't been done yet.

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Polyphemus_

i have to agree with you on that partly.. assembly to C/C++ is indeed far from easy - but with much effort it is possible. But take this example writtin in php:
Big man who can convert that into the same code in a low level language

clanotheduck

I was thinking there must be some way for it to happen, as usually the same actions are being done, just different syntax.

Polyphemus_

it all depends on the code you are using. The example i gave in the last post, is a quite unusual piece of code - i just wanted to make clear you can't convert everything back to low-level.

clanotheduck

I personaly have no freaking clue about anything in PHP so I don't know what the result of that would be, but I'm sure there would be some way to emulate that in a low level language.

I always thought that low level languages gave you more freedom then high level.

LegionZero

What you need to do is read and understand the distutils, it is a small setup file that tells python which modules you want to distribute, follow this link to learn more.
http://www.python.org/doc/current/dist/dist.html

Next what you want to do is get py2exe, I am noob to python also and I have found it to be usefull, go to this link http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ to get documentation and the py2exe modules. It does take a bit of reading but it isn't all that hard to use and implement.

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Polyphemus_

again, it all depends on what kind of code you are writing.