[misaelm]

I built a small app that retrieves data from a remote server, builds a summary and then pushes it to a local html file.

Number of people that tried it when I told them that to make it work they had to download python, pip, paramiko and install the pycrypto binary? Zero. Number of people that tried it after I just gave them a zip file with an executable? No longer zero.

I tried different libraries but Nuitka was the only one that made everything work seamlessly. I owe this guy a beer.

Edit: I no longer owe Kay a beer. I found the donation link on his website.

[fernly]

This issue has been addressed multiple times with considerable success by pyinstaller, py2app, cxfreeze. You can get your single-zip-file distribution package without nuitka, although it may have other advantages.

[aidenn0]

I recently ended up rewriting large parts of a python project in common-lisp due to this exact issue; in this case it was one stage of a pipeline that I prototyped with an existing python library that could output to xml, but delivery of python applications on windows is painful.

[sanderjd]

I think this is one of the reasons Go was a breath of fresh air to a lot of Python and Ruby programmers. The ability to quickly generate a static binary is a great feature.

[president]

If you packaged it correctly, you could get by just requiring Python and pip to be installed. But still, the zip and single executable is still faster.