Convert Your Python Script Into a Windows Executable

During our migration to Windows Azure, we’ve found out that one of our script that does video rotation is a python script. Of course, when you’re on a Windows platform, it’ll be better off for you to run the script as a Windows executable file.

What you need:

• py2exe
• python

1 . Install python and py2exe

2 . Create a simple python script. Name it hello.py

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print "This is a windows executable"

3 . Create a setup.py file

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from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

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

4 . Open cmd.exe and go to your working directory.

5 . We need to install the dependencies that are required by our python script. Run python setup.py install

6 . Then, we convert the python script to an exe with python setup.py py2exe

7 . Your hello.exe will be in the dist directory.

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C:\temp>dist\hello.exe
This is a windows executable