Reader small image

You're reading from  Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints

Product typeBook
Published inNov 2015
Reading LevelExpert
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781785889738
Edition1st Edition
Languages
Right arrow
Author (1)
Bhaskar Chaudhary
Bhaskar Chaudhary
author image
Bhaskar Chaudhary

Bhaskar Chaudhary is a professional programmer and information architect. He has a decade of experience in consulting, contracting, and educating in the field of software development. He has worked with a large set of programming languages on various platforms over the years. He is an electronics hobbyist and a musician in his free time.
Read more about Bhaskar Chaudhary

Right arrow

Distributing a Tkinter application


So, you have your new application ready and want to share it with the rest of the world. How do you do that?

You of course need Python installation for your program to run. Windows does not have Python preinstalled. Most modern Linux distributions and Mac OS X have Python preinstalled, but you don't just need any version of Python. You need a version of Python that is compatible with the version on which the program was originally written.

Furthermore, if your program uses third-party modules, you need the appropriate module installed for the required Python version. This surely is too much diversity to handle.

Fortunately, we have tools, such as Freeze tools, which allow us to distribute Python programs as standalone applications.

Given the diversity of platforms that need to be handled, there are a large number of Freeze tool options from which you can choose. Therefore, a detailed discussion on any one of these tools is beyond the scope of this book.

We will...

lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Page
You have been reading a chapter from
Tkinter GUI Application Development Blueprints
Published in: Nov 2015Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785889738

Author (1)

author image
Bhaskar Chaudhary

Bhaskar Chaudhary is a professional programmer and information architect. He has a decade of experience in consulting, contracting, and educating in the field of software development. He has worked with a large set of programming languages on various platforms over the years. He is an electronics hobbyist and a musician in his free time.
Read more about Bhaskar Chaudhary