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Creating an Advanced setup.py File

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Let’s see what other options py2exe gives us for creating binaries by creating a more complex setup.py file.

Python
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
includes = []
excludes = ['_gtkagg', '_tkagg', 'bsddb', 'curses', 'email', 'pywin.debugger',
            'pywin.debugger.dbgcon', 'pywin.dialogs', 'tcl',
            'Tkconstants', 'Tkinter']
packages = []
dll_excludes = ['libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll', 'libgobject-2.0-0.dll', 'tcl84.dll',
                'tk84.dll']
setup(
    options = {"py2exe": {"compressed": 2, 
                          "optimize": 2,
                          "includes": includes,
                          "excludes": excludes,
                          "packages": packages,
                          "dll_excludes": dll_excludes,
                          "bundle_files": 3,
                          "dist_dir": "dist",
                          "xref": False,
                          "skip_archive": False,
                          "ascii": False,
                          "custom_boot_script": '',
                         }
              },
    windows=['sampleApp.py']
    )

This is pretty self-explanatory, but let’s unpack it anyway. First we set up a few lists that we pass to the options parameter of the setup function.

  • The includes list is for special modules that you need to specifically include. Sometimes py2exe can’t find certain modules, so you get to manually specify them here.
  • The excludes list is a list of which modules to exclude from your program. In this case, we don’t need Tkinter since we’re using
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