If I can reproduce and recreate the steps to make a Windows executable, with the same version of py2exe, I should be able to have an identical paperwal.exe,?
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I just tried it, downloaded python 2.7.6 32 bit and py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.7.exe dated 2008-11-16
Then "compiled" it according to tutorials and came up with a 49 kb executable.
I've tried to replicate Python project py2exe binaries on other computers to make a reliable verification procedure and not had luck. For a start, you need the same setup.py file, and one character different (in the version string that shows up when you right click, for example) makes it not hash right.
Here's the setup.py I likely used to create the exe:
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe, sys, os
sys.argv.append('py2exe')
setup(
options = {'py2exe':
{'optimize': 2,
'bundle_files': 1,
'compressed': True,
},
},
console = ['paperwal.py'],
zipfile = None,
version="1.1.0",
description="Secure Address Generator",
author="deepceleron",
)
Of course using different version of py2exe script byte-compiled on a different day with different windows libraries and modules graphed by the py2exe script with the moon in a different phase makes it different.
You did discover that the base py2exe options creates a small file reliant on the system's installed python modules. I had the same dependency problem with attempts using cython. The py2exe binary is partly ZIP file, you can extract the files to see the python interpreter and many other byte-compiled files included.
