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I am trying to package a program I wrote (using Pyqt4) into a single executable for linux. I tried using Pyinstaller however it has problems with importing Gio (for settings)

from gi.repository import Gio

Running the application would give:

ImportError: cannot import name Gio

I then tried to use bbFreeze. The problem here is that after compiling and running the application, I get this error message:

TypeError: GObject.__init__() takes exactly 0 arguments (1 given)

For bbFreeze this is my script I am running to compile the code:

#!/usr/bin/env python

from bbfreeze import Freezer

includes = ["gio"]
excludes = []

bbFreeze_Class = Freezer('dist', includes=includes, excludes=excludes)

bbFreeze_Class.addScript("main.py", gui_only=True)

bbFreeze_Class.use_compression = 0
bbFreeze_Class.include_py = True
bbFreeze_Class()

I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and Python 2.7. If someone can help that would be great. This is my first time writing Python and trying to compile it (so I am not sure if there are better alternatives).

user654628
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You don't actually compile it, but merely package it. Compiling is where you translate your source code into machine-readable object code in the native instruction set of your computer. So for example, you compile C code into an executable.

Python isn't compiled, it's interpreted. But you can still execute them by prepending #!/usr/bin/env python to any script and marking it as executable.

In terms of packaging a Python application for distribution, it's a little more of a hassle than you'd hope, but there are official instructions from Ubuntu.

As an aside, if you're developing with Ubuntu Quickly, it has a command for packaging.

Ken Kinder
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Actually python supports packaging. You better look into distutils or setuptools for packaging your python package. I recommend python packaging to distro specific packaging as it will be usable in any distro. Also have a look at some projects which use these tools for packaging in pypi e.g Django.

sagarchalise
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