How to Distribute Python Programs

How can I distribute python programs?

The normal way of distributing Python applications is with distutils. It's made both for distributing library type python modules, and python applications, although I don't know how it works on Windows. You would on Windows have to install Python separately if you use distutils, in any case.

I'd probably recommend that you distribute it with disutils for Linux, and Py2exe or something similar for Windows. For OS X I don't know. If it's an end user application you would probably want an disk image type of thing, I don't know how to do that. But read this post for more information on the user experience of it. For an application made for programmers you are probably OK with a distutils type install on OS X too.

How to pack and distribute python program (.py source code) so that other developers can easily install all required dependencies?

In the not so old days I used this guide to learn how to package and distribute my python code, then some good people created flit which allows me to do the whole process in three steps.

$pip install flit

Create my metadata file:

[metadata]
author=Some guy
author-email=some-email@nowhere.com
home-page=https://github.com/someuser/somepackage
requires=requests
requires-python= >=3
description-file=README.rst
classifiers=Intended Audience :: Developers
    License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
    Programming Language :: Python :: 3
    Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

Publish my package:

$pip flit publish

And done!!!

Distributing Python programs

You could use something like py2exe to convert your Python program into an executable.

How to distribute a Python script to non-developers on Windows

I have been using PyInstaller for a while now, seems like it would do exactly what you
want.

How to distribute a Python program with external libraries

For convenient, you could try something like pyinstaller.
It will package all of needed module into one folder or or one executable as you like. And it can run in all platforms.

The simple command to make a directory contains an executable file and all needed library is

$pyinstaller --onedir --name=directory_name --distpath="path_to_put_that_directory" "path to your main_program.py"

You can change --onedir into --onefile to make that folder into an one executable file which has all the thing it need to run inside.