making exe file from python that uses command line arguments

Question

I want to create an exe from a python script that uses command line arguments (argv)
From what I've seen py2exe doesn't support command-line-arguments

What can I do?

EDIT: I was using a GUI2Exe tool, so I just missed the Console flag, but the accepted answer is perfectly correct

Did you try to access sys.argv in a py2exe application? What was the problem? — Janne Karila
– Janne Karila, Commented Feb 29, 2012 at 10:30
I tried, I am facing this issue, please take a look : stackoverflow.com/questions/46945860/… — Pyd
– Pyd, Commented Oct 26, 2017 at 4:29

jgritty · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-29 11:01:27Z

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setup(console=['hello.py'])

I believe the line you want to use looks like this.

I tested this with 2 files:

hello.py

import sys

for arg in sys.argv:
    print arg
print "Hello World!"

And setup.py

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(console=['hello.py'])

I ran these commands:

python setup.py py2exe

And then in the dist folder, I ran this:

hello.exe foo bar

Result:

hello.exe
foo
bar
Hello World!

edited Feb 29, 2012 at 11:01

answered Feb 29, 2012 at 10:30

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Pyd Over a year ago

what do we need to do if we are using nltk libraries. Do we need to copy the nltk_folder in target machine?

Pyd Over a year ago

I tried and facing this issue, please check stackoverflow.com/questions/46945860/…

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