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Hello,

Using…

pyinstaller --clean myscript.py

… I notice that a simple script running Python 3.12.0 that just reads a URL from the clipboard and then launches a CLI application to download a video from the Net needs 100MB worth of dependencies :-/

Is there a way to trim the fat, or are they necessarily all neeeded? For instance, why does a command-line Python script requires PyQt5 and its 80MB module?

FWIW, here's the modules the script imports:

import subprocess
import shlex
import sys
import pyperclip
from os import system
import re

Thank you.

The sub-directory _internal contains those files + subdirs:
api-ms-win-core-console-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-debug-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-errorhandling-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-fibers-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-file-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-file-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-file-l2-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-handle-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-heap-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-interlocked-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-namedpipe-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processenvironment-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-processthreads-l1-1-1.dll
api-ms-win-core-profile-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-string-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-synch-l1-2-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-sysinfo-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-timezone-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-util-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.dll
base_library.zip
libcrypto-3.dll
libffi-8.dll
list.txt
PyQt5
python3.dll
python312.dll
select.pyd
ucrtbase.dll
unicodedata.pyd
VCRUNTIME140.dll
VCRUNTIME140_1.dll
_bz2.pyd
_ctypes.pyd
_decimal.pyd
_hashlib.pyd
_lzma.pyd
_socket.pyd
_wmi.pyd

Uninstalling the PyQT5 module which I installed once but never used removed most of the cruft (80MB), although pyinstaller shouldn't have included it in the first place.

Always build in virtual environment with only needed packages.
Same as advice as i give here a long time ago.