Re: Reducing the size of compiled python executables

  • From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:01:42 -0400 (EDT)

I have found the size of a py2exe executable to be at least 5 megabytes,
but generally not more than 8.  Make sure you choose the compressed
setting.

Jamal
On Fri, 15 May 2009, tuukka Ojala wrote:

> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 22:57:31 +0300
> From: tuukka Ojala <tuukka.ojala@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Reducing the size of compiled python executables
>
> Hi
>
> I'm creating a simple Windows utility in python which uses the lbc library.
> When I compile my script with either py2exe or cx_freeze, the size of the
> output folder is 15,9 MB. This is really a little bit too much when compared
> to my old AutoIt implementation which was 200 KB. Do you know how I could
> reduce the distribution size?
>
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