Python Forum - Python 3.4: the only release to create .EXE standalone without .dll

Hi all,
I hope that someone disagrees the title assumption, being carried out several tests through v.3.5.1, which reaches differently the goal, as shown in this screenshot: http://imgbox.com/BFWXJGZL Namely, the executable Neper.exe works only in presence of plenty of dynamic libraries (.dll)

What have I done by downgrading to 3.4?

First of all, installing the module py2exe, that works better if called by 3.4 and not by 3.5.1 (mystery!). Look at this scheme:

C:\Users\Alfabeta>python -V
Python 3.4.0

C:\Users\Alfabeta>pip -V
pip 1.5.4 from C:\Python34\lib\site-packages (python 3.4)

C:\Users\Alfabeta>pip freeze
mpmath==1.1.0
py2exe==0.9.2.2

Secondly, doing this console command:

python compile.py mycal.py

where py's and output (mycal.exe, fully standalone) are available here: https://transfer.sh/13hM6a/samsonite_folder.rar

Thanks in advance for appreciated comments and cheers

Use pyinstaller work Python 3.7 and can make one file executable(.exe).
Py2exe stopped develop at Python 3.4 and do not work for newer versions.
Show a basic run with pyinstaller in this post.

snippsat wrote:
Use pyinstaller work Python 3.7 and can make one file executable(.exe).
Just done, unsuccessfully (many .dll's) with 3.5.1 version, as follows, and I have some doubts that something changes with 3.7. Better if someone else replicate my test, thank you.

C:\Users\Alfabeta>pip install pyinstaller

Collecting pyinstaller
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/03/32/0e0de593f129bf1d1e77eed562496d154ef4460fd5cecfd78612ef3
9a0cc/PyInstaller-3.4.tar.gz (3.5MB)
    100% |################################| 3.5MB 1.3MB/s
  Installing build dependencies ... done
.............
.............
Successfully built pefile future
Installing collected packages: altgraph, macholib, pywin32-ctypes, future, pefile, pyinstaller
Successfully installed altgraph-0.16.1 future-0.17.1 macholib-1.11 pefile-2018.8.8 pyinstaller-3.4 pywin32-ctypes-0
.2.0

C:\Training>cd zzz

C:\Training\zzz>pyinstaller Neper.py
62 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.4
62 INFO: Python: 3.5.1
62 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.17134-SP0
62 INFO: wrote C:\Training\zzz\Neper.spec
62 INFO: UPX is not available.
78 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths
['C:\\Training\\zzz', 'C:\\Training\\zzz']
78 INFO: checking Analysis
78 INFO: Building Analysis because Analysis-00.toc is non existent
78 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph...
78 INFO: Initializing module graph hooks...
78 INFO: Analyzing base_library.zip ...
2859 INFO: running Analysis Analysis-00.toc
3515 INFO: Caching module hooks...
3530 INFO: Analyzing C:\Training\zzz\Neper.py
5585 INFO: Loading module hooks...
5585 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-encodings.py"...
5663 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pydoc.py"...
5663 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-xml.py"...
5882 INFO: Looking for ctypes DLLs
5897 INFO: Analyzing run-time hooks ...
5897 INFO: Looking for dynamic libraries
5991 INFO: Looking for eggs
5991 INFO: Using Python library c:\users\alfabeta\appdata\local\programs\python\python35\python35.dll
5991 INFO: Found binding redirects:
[]
6009 INFO: Warnings written to C:\Training\zzz\build\Neper\warn-Neper.txt
6056 INFO: Graph cross-reference written to C:\Training\zzz\build\Neper\xref-Neper.html
6072 INFO: checking PYZ
6072 INFO: Building PYZ because PYZ-00.toc is non existent
6072 INFO: Building PYZ (ZlibArchive) C:\Training\zzz\build\Neper\PYZ-00.pyz
6587 INFO: Building PYZ (ZlibArchive) C:\Training\zzz\build\Neper\PYZ-00.pyz completed successfully.
6587 INFO: checking PKG
6587 INFO: Building PKG because PKG-00.toc is non existent
6587 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) PKG-00.pkg
6619 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) PKG-00.pkg completed successfully.
6619 INFO: Bootloader c:\users\alfabeta\appdata\local\programs\python\python35\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\bootlo
ader\Windows-64bit\run.exe
6619 INFO: checking EXE
6619 INFO: Building EXE because EXE-00.toc is non existent
6619 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc
6634 INFO: Appending archive to EXE C:\Training\zzz\build\Neper\Neper.exe
6634 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc completed successfully.
6650 INFO: checking COLLECT
6650 INFO: Building COLLECT because COLLECT-00.toc is non existent
6650 INFO: Building COLLECT COLLECT-00.toc
7105 INFO: Building COLLECT COLLECT-00.toc completed successfully.

Use

pyinstaller -F Neper.py

Good drift, Axel.
Problem solved via pyinstaller, as shown underneath and in this screenshot http://imgbox.com/Vpl7tdbY
Thank you very much, and cheers.

C:\Training\z_folder>pyinstaller -F Neper.py
206 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.4
206 INFO: Python: 3.4.0
206 INFO: Platform: Windows-8-6.2.9200
206 INFO: wrote C:\Training\z_folder\Neper.spec
221 INFO: UPX is not available.
221 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths
['C:\\Training\\z_folder', 'C:\\Training\\z_folder']
221 INFO: checking Analysis
221 INFO: Building Analysis because Analysis-00.toc is non existent
221 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph...
221 INFO: Initializing module graph hooks...
237 INFO: Analyzing base_library.zip ...
2554 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook   distutils
4934 INFO: running Analysis Analysis-00.toc
5356 INFO: Caching module hooks...
5371 INFO: Analyzing C:\Training\z_folder\Neper.py
8154 INFO: Loading module hooks...
8154 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-xml.py"...
8482 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-encodings.py"...
8576 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-distutils.py"...
8623 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pydoc.py"...
8670 INFO: Looking for ctypes DLLs
8670 INFO: Analyzing run-time hooks ...
8685 INFO: Looking for dynamic libraries
8904 INFO: Looking for eggs
8904 INFO: Using Python library C:\Python34\python34.dll
8904 INFO: Found binding redirects:
[]
8920 INFO: Warnings written to C:\Training\z_folder\build\Neper\warn-Neper.txt
8982 INFO: Graph cross-reference written to C:\Training\z_folder\build\Neper\xref-Neper.html
9013 INFO: checking PYZ
9013 INFO: Building PYZ because PYZ-00.toc is non existent
9013 INFO: Building PYZ (ZlibArchive) C:\Training\z_folder\build\Neper\PYZ-00.pyz
9763 INFO: Building PYZ (ZlibArchive) C:\Training\z_folder\build\Neper\PYZ-00.pyz completed successfully.
9779 INFO: checking PKG
9795 INFO: Building PKG because PKG-00.toc is non existent
9795 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) PKG-00.pkg
11252 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) PKG-00.pkg completed successfully.
11252 INFO: Bootloader C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\bootloader\Windows-32bit\run.exe
11252 INFO: checking EXE
11252 INFO: Building EXE because EXE-00.toc is non existent
11252 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc
11268 INFO: Appending archive to EXE C:\Training\z_folder\dist\Neper.exe
11299 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc completed successfully.

samsonite Wrote:Just done, unsuccessfully (many .dll's) with 3.5.1 version, as follows, and I have some doubts that something changes with 3.7.

Had you look at my run in my previous post.

pyinstaller --onefile --console power.py

Is the same as @Axel_Erfurt postet so -F is the same as --onefile.

Upgrade your Python version,do not use Python 3.4 anymore.
Python 3.6/3.7 and pip installation under Windows
A carrot for upgrade is that you can use f-string.

>>> print(f"Sammy has {4:4} red and {16:16}! blue balloons")
Sammy has    4 red and               16! blue balloons
 
>>> # f-strings support any Python expressions inside the curly braces
>>> name = 'f-string'
>>> print(f"My cool string is called {name.upper()}.")
My cool string is called F-STRING.
 
>>> a, b = 5, 7
>>> f'{a}/{b} = {a/b:.2}'
'5/7 = 0.71'
 
>>> for word in 'f-strings are awesome'.split():
...     print(f'{word.upper():~^20}')
~~~~~F-STRINGS~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~ARE~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~AWESOME~~~~~~~

Thanks administrator!
Also in Python 3.4 pip is installed by default. By the way, in case of some troubles I'll upgrade it, as per your suggestions. Cheers

Hi administrator!
In compliance with your kind advices I've erased my old ralease (3.4) and installed a new one. All works perfectly, as shown below. Thanks a lot, and cheers

Step-1: check Python version
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C:\Users\Alfabeta>python -V
Python 3.7.2

Step-2: installing the math library (mpmath) via pip
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C:\Users\Alfabeta>pip install mpmath
Collecting mpmath
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ca/63/3384ebb3b51af9610086b23ea976e6d27d6d97bf140a76a365bd77a
3eb32/mpmath-1.1.0.tar.gz (512kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 522kB 2.2MB/s
Installing collected packages: mpmath
  Running setup.py install for mpmath ... done
Successfully installed mpmath-1.1.0
You are using pip version 18.1, however version 19.0.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Step-3: installing module (pyinstaller)
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C:\Users\Alfabeta>pip install pyinstaller
Collecting pyinstaller
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/03/32/0e0de593f129bf1d1e77eed562496d154ef4460fd5cecfd78612ef3
9a0cc/PyInstaller-3.4.tar.gz (3.5MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 3.5MB 2.2MB/s
  Installing build dependencies ... done
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in c:\users\alfabeta\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-pack
ages (from pyinstaller) (40.6.2)
Collecting pefile>=2017.8.1 (from pyinstaller)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/ed/cc/157f20038a80b6a9988abc06c11a4959be8305a0d33b6d21a134127
092d4/pefile-2018.8.8.tar.gz (62kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 71kB 2.3MB/s
Collecting macholib>=1.8 (from pyinstaller)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/41/f1/6d23e1c79d68e41eb592338d90a33af813f98f2b04458aaf0b86908
da2d8/macholib-1.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting altgraph (from pyinstaller)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/0a/cc/646187eac4b797069e2e6b736f14cdef85dbe405c9bfc7803ef36e4
f62ef/altgraph-0.16.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting pywin32-ctypes (from pyinstaller)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/9e/4b/3ab2720f1fa4b4bc924ef1932b842edf10007e4547ea8157b0b9fc7
8599a/pywin32_ctypes-0.2.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting future (from pefile>=2017.8.1->pyinstaller)
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/90/52/e20466b85000a181e1e144fd8305caf2cf475e2f9674e797b222f81
05f5f/future-0.17.1.tar.gz (829kB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 829kB 2.2MB/s
Installing collected packages: future, pefile, altgraph, macholib, pywin32-ctypes, pyinstaller
  Running setup.py install for future ... done
  Running setup.py install for pefile ... done
  Running setup.py install for pyinstaller ... done
Successfully installed altgraph-0.16.1 future-0.17.1 macholib-1.11 pefile-2018.8.8 pyinstaller-3.4 pywin32-ctypes-0
.2.0
You are using pip version 18.1, however version 19.0.3 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Step-3bis: updating (pip) as suggested before
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C:\Users\Alfabeta>python -m pip install --upgrade pip
Collecting pip
  Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/d8/f3/413bab4ff08e1fc4828dfc59996d721917df8e8583ea85385d51125
dceff/pip-19.0.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.4MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.4MB 3.0MB/s
Installing collected packages: pip
  Found existing installation: pip 18.1
    Uninstalling pip-18.1:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-18.1
Successfully installed pip-19.0.3

C:\Users\Alfabeta>pip -V
pip 19.0.3 from c:\users\alfabeta\appdata\local\programs\python\python37\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.7)


Step-4: applying pyinstaller to the code Neper.py
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C:\Training\zoz>pyinstaller -F Neper.py
62 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.4
62 INFO: Python: 3.7.2
62 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.17134-SP0
62 INFO: wrote C:\Training\zoz\Neper.spec
62 INFO: UPX is not available.
...............
...............
8869 INFO: Appending archive to EXE C:\Training\zoz\dist\Neper.exe
8900 INFO: Building EXE from EXE-00.toc completed successfully.

Step-5: check if the standalone executable is formed 
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 Directory di C:\Training\zoz\dist
28/02/2019  09:56         6.568.756 Neper.exe
               1 File      6.568.756 byte

Step-6: running it 
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C:\Training\zoz\dist>Neper
2.71828182845904523536028747135266249775724709369995957496696762772407663035354759457138217852516642742746639193200
3059921817413596629043572900334295260595630738132328627943490763233829880753195251019011573834187930702154089149934
8841675092447614606680822648001684774118537423454424371075390777449920695517027618386062613313845830007520449338265
6029760673711320070932870912744374704723069697720931014169283681902551510865746377211125238978442505695369677078544
9969967946864454905987931636889230098793127736178215424999229576351482208269895193668033182528869398496465105820939
2398294887933203625094431173012381970684161403970198376793206832823764648042953118023287825098194558153017567173613
3206981125099618188159304169035159888851934580727386673858942287922849989208680582574927961048419844436346324496848
7560233624827041978623209002160990235304369941849146314093431738143640546253152096183690888707016768396424378140592
... and so on!