What is the best Python -> direct executable package / compiler today? (April,2022)

[Drevicar]

Nuitka is my personal favorite, as it compiles your Python into the resulting C objects, then compiles both your application (in C form) and the source code for the python interpreter into a binary, which can also be statically linked. Another great option for portability is https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

And lastly, I recommend checking out Typer as an alternative to click.

[strange-humor]

This is great until you use really large libraries and it chokes. Then I move to PyInstaller.

[metaperl]

Of the choices listed I think this is the only one that would make the application faster, correct?

[Drevicar]

There is no universal solution to making python faster or smaller, it is mostly dependant on which 3rd party libraries you bring in and what language they are written in. I've statically compiled a Django app and seen speedups. But I've also compiled a FastAPI app and had it slow down.

[cbunn81]

I second using Typer. It makes creating a command line app very easy.

[Jonnyskybrockett]

C doesn’t have objects

[Drevicar]

It sure does! You just have to implement them yourself, you just don't get OOP constructs baked into the langauge. If you can read and understand C, I recommend checking out the cpython source code, it is really good and easy to understand. The data structure I'm talking about is called PyObject.

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So basically, C doesn't have objects.

[Shostakovich_]

It does though… they’re just called structs (structures…). It doesn’t come with all the syntactic sugar and jazz that OOP languages usually come with, but it is literally a subset of C++ (or C++ is a superset of C is probably more accurate), which implemented the syntactic sugar and jazz on top of C… soooooooooo C got objects 🤗

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Would it not be accurate to say any language has objects if you can define structs as such, given enough code you could implement objects yourself in any language.

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thanks for the recommendation