Python is one of my favorite programming languages. That being said, if you've ever had to deploy an application written in Python then you know just how painful it can be. Fortunately, there are some…

Since my update of Python 3.4 to 3.5 colorama does not recognize a Windows environment if launched from PowerShell. Running colored scripts from cmd.exe does still work. An explicit init(convert=tr...

Fortunately, there are some pretty awesome open-source tools that can be used to package a Python program into a standalone binary executable that contains everything needed to run the application (i.e. Python interpreter, program code, libraries, data, etc.).

PyInstaller is a program that freezes (packages) Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris and AIX. Its main advantages over similar tools are that PyInstaller works with Python 2.7 and 3.3—3.5, it builds smaller executables thanks to transparent compression, it is fully multi-platform, and use the OS support to load the dynamic libraries, thus ensuring full compatibility.

A Python distutils extension which converts python scripts into executable windows programs, able to run without requiring a python installation.