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Published inJan 2015
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ISBN-139781783287376
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Joseph Howse
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Joseph Howse lives in a Canadian fishing village, where he chats with his cats, crafts his books, and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. He is President of Nummist Media Corporation, which exists to support his books and to provide mentoring and consulting services, with a specialty in computer vision. On average, in 2015-2022, Joseph has written 1.4 new books or new editions per year for Packt. He also writes fiction, including an upcoming novel about the lives of a group of young people in the last days of the Soviet Union.
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Building Luxocator for distribution


To instruct PyInstaller how to build Luxocator, we must create a specification file, which we will call Luxocator.spec. Actually, the specification file is a Python script that uses a PyInstaller class called Analysis and PyInstaller functions called PYZ, EXE, and BUNDLE. The Analysis class is responsible for analyzing one or more Python scripts (in our case, just Luxocator.py) and tracing all the dependencies that must be bundled with these scripts in order to make a redistributable application. Sometimes, Analysis makes mistakes or omissions, so we will modify the list of dependencies after it is initialized. Then, we will zip the scripts, make an executable, and make an app bundle using PYZ, EXE, and BUNDLE, respectively. Here is the implementation:

import os

a = Analysis(['Luxocator.py'],
  pathex=['.'],
  hiddenimports=[],
  hookspath=None,
  runtime_hooks=None)

# Determine the platform.
platform = os.name

if platform == 'nt':
  # We are on Windows...
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Published in: Jan 2015Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781783287376

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Joseph Howse

Joseph Howse lives in a Canadian fishing village, where he chats with his cats, crafts his books, and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. He is President of Nummist Media Corporation, which exists to support his books and to provide mentoring and consulting services, with a specialty in computer vision. On average, in 2015-2022, Joseph has written 1.4 new books or new editions per year for Packt. He also writes fiction, including an upcoming novel about the lives of a group of young people in the last days of the Soviet Union.
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