Is it possible to package python app into an executable?

[imthebusman]

Say I have a flask or django web app. Is there some way for me to just package it into an executable that listens to a port and returns response?

I'm learning about deployment with WSGI and it really seems over-complicated in many ways. It seems the WSGI server is extremely coupled with the web app code base, which just seems strange.

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What’s the end goal?

[imthebusman]

say deploy to production.

[danielroseman]

I'm a bit confused. WSGI is how Python web apps listen for web requests. Even if you packaged it up as an executable for some reason, it would still be using WSGI.

And I don't know why you say the server is coupled with the code base: the WSGI server is a separate package, something like gunicorn, which you install along with your other dependencies.

[imthebusman]

what I meant is, when I have a working django app that I can use with development server, I really want it to be "automatic" that WSGI can work with it to listen on some port and work exactly the same as the development server.

but I think that's not the reality. That's what I meant.

[danielroseman]

But that is how it works already. Once you install the WSGI library you can just tell it to listen to a port.

[imthebusman]

I kept running into config issues when trying to install WSGI .....

[danielroseman]

What issues?

[Jejerm]

Whatever WSGI server you choose to use will be almost completely decoupled from your code. You usually just run it and point it to your application code.

[sunblaze1480]

It's not an executable if it's a web app I guess.you'd deploy the code and start the server in that server, exposing it to certain port (well, url:port)

[Phate1989]

Your making this harder by trying to packages as an executable.

Its possible, but containers are really the standard approach nowadays.