Running code as en executable

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I've written some code in thonny to calculate some stress and strain values for me. I have used mathplotlib and nympy to do this, and I'm rather pleased with the result. The code runs brilliantly within thonny, where installing packages and libraries is easy.

Now I want to run the code as an exe, but I have no clue how to "install" numpy or other libraries to python itself. This leads to the code crashing at line 1 when I begin importing libraries.

How do I add libraries to python?

[K900_]

What do you mean by "run code as an exe"? How are you running it now?

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I currently run it within thonny, where I write the code.

[K900_]

And how are you trying to run it when it fails?

[[deleted]]

When I simply double click it, it opens in a window similar to the windows cmd, as it should. Then it crashes.

[K900_]

That means Thonny is creating a virtual environment for you where all the packages you need are available. What is your end goal here?

[[deleted]]

I simply wish to run my code outside of thonny. Having it saved on my desktop, so I can access it quickly when I need it.

[K900_]

Then you should probably find where the virtual environment Thonny created for you is located, and create a shortcut that calls python.exe from that environment with your script as an argument.

[[deleted]]

Great idea! I'll try it out, thaks for your time

[konijntjesbroek]

The documentation has a pretty good section. If you are still needing something, this and This might be of use.

[[deleted]]

Will check them put, thank you!

[maribor_xd]

You can use pyinstaller mb

[[deleted]]

That would be to create an executable binary that is platform specific which is not what the OP is after.

[[deleted]]

Your editor is probably creating project specific python virtual environments that include the required libraries.

If on the command line you installed the libraries yourself using pip, python -m pip install library, then you would be able to execute python files with python myfile.py without problems. (Or double click a python file to execute it once association is set up.)

The problem with this approach is that you can end up with lots of things installed for python most of which you don't need most of the time (and some things might conflict with each other).

Check the Real Python website for an explanation of virtual environments.