Pyinstaller question

[DPaul]

Hi,
My app slowly evolves into new versions, never any big changes.
I then proceed to make a new exe, always in the same manner:

Output:
 pyinstaller --clean --onefile --windowed VVX-V6.py

I always get the approx same filesize for the exe: +/- 102 mb.

Today, i saw that the filesize of the exe was over 500 mb.
I had noticed a lot of comments about tensorflow in the verbose
pyinstaller analysis. There is no tensorflow import in the app !

So I proceded to pip uninstall every pckage that had the word "tensor" in it,
and ran the pyinstaller again. This time the size was only 200mb.
Still a lot more than I expect. But, everything is working fine.

Where do I start to analyse what unnecessary elements pyinstaller is
incorporating into the app exe ?
thx,
Paul

[DPaul]

I have proceeded to pip unistall a series of packages that I
had installed out of intrest, but am not using in the app.
The exe keeps getting smaller and smaller, now even smaller that what I am used to.
And - not unimportant- it still works.

So the question is, why does pyinstaller collect packages that
are not relevant to the app?
Paul

[Axel_Erfurt]

I also had similar experiences with pyinstaller (in Linux). Too many unnecessary modules.
Nuitka does it better.

[DPaul]

To Axel & Bronjer.
Thanks for the advice. I will surely look into those suggestions.
Paul