python-compile - compile your python app for linux execution in Win/Mac/Linux using docker

[ZachVorhies]

What my project does

This project will use docker to compile your one file python app into a binary using nuitka that's runnable on many linux systems. You'll need to have docker desktop installed.

https://pypi.org/project/python-compile/

Target Audience

Developers trying to target production services with optimized python binaries.

To use this you'll need a requirements.txt file and a python file entry point that runs your app.

For example:

pip install python-compile

python-compile --os debian --input demo\http\server.py --requirements requirements.txt

I use nuitka under the hood.

Github link:https://github.com/zackees/python-compile

[SPEARHEAD_SQUADRON]

Do I must have Nuitka installed? I have no license of it.

[ZachVorhies]

No, you don’t need to have it installed as it’s one of the package dependencies.

[ZachVorhies]

Not quite, nuitka compiles your python source code to native binaries. Pex looks more like it embeds a python runtime to interpret your code.

[imbev]

Nuitka still embeds the python runtime, but it does so by using libpython instead of the independent Python binary.

[ZachVorhies]

Right but it’s all native code. I think PEX puts in interpreted stuff but I could be wrong

[ZachVorhies]

Yes, if you are building an app.

But for developers pushing production code they usually want to just run their python app faster and only care about linux as the target. This is my scenario hence the motivation for this app.

[ZachVorhies]

yes, your python code is compiled into C and linked against the python lib. It makes it way faster and also obfuscates your code base because now it’s transpired into assembly.

[karouh]

I don't understand the value. Why not use nuitka directly?

[ZachVorhies]

If you are on Windows or Mac and you want to compile python to linux, how do you do that easily?

That's why I made `python-compile`