PyInstaller
Freeze (package) Python programs into stand-alone executables (by pyinstaller)
pyarmor
A tool used to obfuscate python scripts, bind obfuscated scripts to fixed machine or expire obfuscated scripts. (by dashingsoft)
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| PyInstaller | pyarmor | |
|---|---|---|
| 105 | 6 | |
| 11,271 | 2,899 | |
| 1.4% | 3.5% | |
| 9.6 | 9.6 | |
| 9 days ago | about 9 hours ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
PyInstaller
Posts with mentions or reviews of PyInstaller.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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Python 3.12.1 Released
Not sure if fixed in this patch, but pyinstaller had an issue in 3.12.0 https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/7992
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Why not tell people to “simply” use pyenv, poetry or anaconda
You are right. I think I've misremembered the module name - it was uwsgi, not uvicorn.
This is a github issue where I discussed my original issue with PyInstaller devs - the dev explained the situation very well: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/6362
- Automations/Scripts should I let them have it after resign?
- Question: Modifying HTML in Rust
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Shipping large ML models with electron
PyInstaller seemed like the most maintained and developed tool to freeze python script into an executable, so I went with it. As expected, the freezed interface with the model was gigabytes large, so I had to figure out how to squeeze this. Fortunately, Onnx worked wonders and packaged the model into an inference only state, so I could throw away the Pytorch and Torchtext dependencies when freezing with Pyinstaller.Now the size of the executable with the model was 43MB instead of 4GB.
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.py to .msi
You might want to see Pyinstaller and auto_py_to_exe if you want a GUI interface.
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How to make a GUI translator app with Python Tkinter
It uses the pyinstaller command behind and please read their docs if you want to know more details.
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PROGRAMMING MAKES MY DAY
I also found another link on github that may have some solutions to try: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/3600
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importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for djoser pyinstaller
I made a Django react app. Now I want to make it a desktop application so that the user does not have type python manage.py runserver and also activate the environment every time. I used pyinstaller. I did all the steps mentioned for django
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PassGen | Password generator/manager.
First, instead of creating a VM for windows, you may need to use a software called Wine mentioned in the pyinstaller FAQs
pyarmor
Posts with mentions or reviews of pyarmor.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-31.
- Obfuscation tutorial (the sequel)
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hiding python source code
Either look at Cython, or try obfuscating the code then using pyinstaller to create an executable.
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I want to reduce the readability of python codes and encrypt them. Everyone should not open it according to their own mind and read everything. How can I do it?
There are few vendors that provide commercial python obfuscation/DRM (though see pyarmor)
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Encryption
You can obfuscate) your code with pyarmor.
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How to hide code from server admin in deployment?
You might need to obfuscate your code. Refer this https://pyarmor.dashingsoft.com/
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marshal zlib base64 How do I encrypt my code using
the code is not encrypted, very easy to decode if you know the python language :) If you are looking for an up to date obfuscate, you can look at pyarmor. https://github.com/dashingsoft/pyarmor
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PyInstaller and pyarmor you can also consider the following projects:
Nuitka - Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.
PyOxidizer - A modern Python application packaging and distribution tool
py2exe - modified py2exe to support unicode paths
py2app
packaging - Core utilities for Python packages
pynsist - Build Windows installers for Python applications
Poetry - Python packaging and dependency management made easy