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From: Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Re: Python kit
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:46:49 +0100
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Am 22.11.24 um 19:15 schrieb saito:
> Is there something in the Python world that is similar to a tclkit? A 
> minimal run-time environment that ideally consists of a single file? I 
> was going to post it to the python group but I am not sure I can 
> properly explain the concept and do it justice.

There is no canonical solution but several possibilities.

There is "pyinstaller" which similarly can create a single-file 
executable embedding an arbitrary script. It comes with a static 
analyzer which tries to automatically download/package the dependencies. 
Problem is the maintenance of it, it used to be a hobby project.

You can also package up a Python script as a zip file, and run this 
directly from a python interpreter. I believe the zipkit facility of Tcl 
9 is inspired by it. Contrary to pyinstaller, the zip solution cannot 
load binary extensions.

Another one is py2exe, which, I think, only runs on Windows.

In my humble experience, the Tclkit solution is more solid than the 
Python solutions, in that it doesn't break as easily when you update 
some of the dependencies. For pyinstaller, I always had to tweak the 
configuration script a little when the libraries have changed (I'm using 
matplotlib, which is a HUGE library). OTOH the automatic dependency 
resolution is a very nice feature, especially considering the vast 
Python library ecosystem.

            Christian