Pyinstaller binaries

[Fizzadar]

Sometimes it's desirable to have a single binary instead of a pip/whatever package. Unfortunately in the Python world this isn't a simple task and the resulting binary is pretty slow to execute (10s to start cold). But it works!

[codecov]

Codecov Report

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[v3ss0n]

should be doable with nuitka

[Fizzadar]

For now I'm killing this, I do wish to revisit probably using nuitka but the performance is still too much of a concern, although I have some ideas on dealing with this (bundle the pyinfra module into a zip to avoid all the IO operations on startup). Anyway, will revisit in 3.X where X > 0.

[paidhi]

If you revisit this I would recommend taking a look at what PyApp, by Ofek Lev, has to offer. Hatch (by the same author) has a simple integration with PyApp via it's Binary Builder Plugin.

I use this at work to build an internal utility that is written in Python and has mulitple 3rd-party dependencies (e.g. rich, requests, psutils). It produces a single (Linux ELF) executable that I can just copy an any machine and run.

A good usage example might be Hatch itself. One can download it as a single executable. PyApp provides the executable with a nice "self" subcommand. E.g.: hatch self update.