Invalid command 'bdist_msi' when trying to create MSI installer with 'cx_Freeze' Question: I am trying to create MSI installer for Windows with cx_Freeze package. Anyway, when running command python setup.py bdist_msi I get an error that it is invalid. Is there any options I am missing or maybe I cannot use it on Linux (I …
How to make it easy for the end user to install all of my dependencies in Python? Question: I’ve built a program that has a couple of dependencies, and I am wondering how to make it as easy as possible for end-users at my company to install and use the program. They will have no …
Why the latest Python 3.8.x release provides no Windows installer? Question: I need to install Python 3.8 on a Windows computer and hope to use the latest minor version of 3.8.12. The official release web page provides tarball files of the source code but no Windows installer. Python 3.8.10 provides Windows installers, but it is …
Where is latest python 3.3 bindary build for windows platform? Question: You maybe ask why do I use python 3.3 any way. Because, I am running postgresql on windows. The plpython module shipped with pgsql 9.6 is linked to python33.dll According to https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0398/#id7 There is only source release. Why do python only release source tar …
Launch a totally independent process from Python Question: I’m trying to launch a completely independent process from python. I can’t use something simple like os.startfile since I need to pass arguments. Currently I’m using subprocess.popen which gets me 90% of the way there. args = ["some_exe.exe", "some_arg", "another_arg"] subprocess.Popen(args, creationflags=DETACHED_PROCESS | CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, stdin=subprocess.PIPE) …
