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I have just picked up Python to develop a tool and I am so far really enjoying the language, however have one issue I am not entirely sure how to solve.

I am looking to use a few external libraries in my project, at the moment cherryPy and Cheetah however I am not sure how to package up my application so that these libraries are included. Coming from a .NET world the compiler used to do pretty much everything for me.

Have done a bit of googling but have not been able to find any solution, so I must be missing something fundamental. Is this something I need to configure distutils for? Do I need to copy the libs in to my application folder structure anywhere? Both?

Appreciate any advice please. :)

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  • Possible dup: stackoverflow.com/questions/3442886/… Commented Oct 22, 2011 at 1:54
  • Are you asking about packaging a Python application for Windows? Or cross-platform? Commented Oct 22, 2011 at 1:59
  • Hi P-T, the difference I have with that question is that I am wanting to package external libraries provided bvy others, with my application. Commented Oct 22, 2011 at 2:40
  • retracile - I want to package up so that all of my code is distributable together and that the required external libraries are kept with the code. I will eventually want to package for Linux/Mac, not really interested in Windows. Commented Oct 22, 2011 at 2:43
  • The linked duplicate specifically mentions including third-party libraries. Voting to close as duplicate. Commented Oct 22, 2011 at 3:16

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I think what you're asking is how to create what Python calls a Built Distribution. This can be done with distutils and it is tedious. And again I'm guessing at the question, but I think you'd benefit from the docs about describing extension modules.

Besides that, I don't think a broad answer would be complete without pointing at py2exe and py2app -- utilities to create standalone executables for Windows and OS X, respectively.

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