You have just created an awesome new application. Maybe it's a game or maybe it's an image viewer. Whatever your application is, you want to share it with your friend or a family member. However, you know they won't know how to install Python or any of the dependencies. What do you do? You need […]
In this screencast we will learn how to install 3rd party modules and packages using easy_install, pip and from source. You can also read the chapter this video is based on here or get the book on Leanpub
Python's first mainstream package was the .egg file. Now there's a new format in town called the Wheel (*.whl). A wheel "is designed to contain all the files for a PEP 376 compatible install in a way that is very close to the on-disk format". In this article, we will learn how to create a […]
Today we're going to learn about one of wxPython's newer features: wx.lib.softwareupdate. It was actually added a couple of years ago. What this allows you to do is add update abilities to your software. As far as I can tell, this mixin only allows prompted updates, not silent updates. Getting Started It's built into wxPython […]
Pip Installs Python or pip is a tool for installing and managing Python packages, many of which are on the Python Package Index (PyPI). It is a replacement of easy_install. In this article, we'll spend a little time trying out pip to see how it works and how it might help us in our Python […]
This is the last article of my "Build a Binary Series". If you haven't done so already, be sure to check out the others. For our finale, we are to look at Andrea Gavana's wxPython-based GUI2Exe, a nice graphical user interface to py2exe, bbfreeze, cx_Freeze, PyInstaller and py2app. The latest release of GUI2Exe is 0.5.0, […]
