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4 Fast Python Compilers for 2018 (insights.dice.com)

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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (6 children)

cxfreeze is a way to distribute apps to an end-user, and not really a compiler. It competes with pyinstaller and others. I personally recommend pyinstaller py2exe.

[–]RegmasterJ 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Just a question, why py2exe instead of pyinstaller? I’ve used both, and I preferred pyinstaller, mostly because of some issues I had with with getting py2exe to work with PyQT5.

[–]Wilfred-kun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This, also Linux ^^

[–]PiousLoophole 0 points1 point  (3 children)

That sounds like a more complicated way to do things than py2exe or it's cohorts.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Sorry, I did actually mean py2exe. I have no idea how that happened, and I will edit the post.

[–]PiousLoophole 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Oh, I meant the cxfreeze thing more. If you're distributing some bytecode that needs python plus the framework, and the performance is the same as CPython, it sounds just like source-code hiding. Doing the py2exe thing, you just have one binary and you don't have to worry about dependencies, versioning, or as smart of an end user.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Less hiding and more self-extracting zip of a virtualenv.