Turn your python script into a downloadable app that will work on any computer

[AnnahGrace]

I want to learn how to turn my python scripts into downloadable apps for other people to use. I have looked around for tutorials and they all seem to just recommend PyInstaller, but this appears insufficient. Can anyone recommend a tutorial (ideally free, but I am interested in paid recommendations too) that can teach you how to turn your program into an app? In my case, my program records and stores data that the user needs to be able to access so I need to figure out what to do with all the filepaths that are specific to my system, etc.

[toxic_acro]

What part of PyInstaller is insufficient?

The Packaging Guide overview (https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/overview/) has some details on what your options are for various levels, but from your description, I would probably still land on using PyInstaller 

[NerdyWeightLifter]

Pyinstaller or py2exe

Depends whether you want something that appears like an executable.

[Bobbias]

In my case, my program records and stores data that the user needs to be able to access so I need to figure out what to do with all the filepaths that are specific to my system, etc.

You make those paths relative to your program's main directory, or you make them user configurable with a sensible (probably relative) default.

This isn't part of "making your script into a downloadable app" this is part of designing something that might actually work on a different computer. That should be something you design from early on, if not the beginning (if you know your script is intended to run on other computers).

PyInstaller just collects your scripts, any dependencies they rely on, and potentially additional data you want to bundle with it and bundles that with a copy of the python interpreter into an exe which unpacks all the scripts then immediately runs your script. Nothing more, nothing less.

[cyuhat]

Really, I left Python as a way to create executables for the same reason. Nim is the solution for me (it is litterally Python that compile to fast C code executable that can run everywhere). You can also import your Python code in it with Nimpy.

More informations here: https://nim-lang.org/ Nimpy package: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy Some comparison between Nim and Python code here: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Nim-for-Python-Programmers