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Since this is highly incompatible with most python ecosystem right now, may I plug nuitka?

It's a compiler for python code that can create stand alone executables, and up to 4 times the speed of the initial code.

Best of all, it's extremely reliable, with a high level of support of event the tricky things like the scientic and gui stacks.

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Seconded, I deploy large packages with gigabytes of deep learning and GIS dependencies in single executables with Nuitka and it works very well. Also handles including data files into the executable if needed.

Out of curiosity, are the GIS dependencies the proprietary ones (coughESRIcough)?

Ha ing been down a similar path, this whole thing works so much better if you don't 'import arcpy'. Licencing issues aside, you've often got faster tools in shapely, fiona, geopandas, rasterio, xarray.

Please no, not ArcGIS. I’m sure our dependencies would clash with arcpy’s if we tried. Fortunately my company uses FOSS packages almost exclusively.

Third'ly?... Nuitka is amazing. Simply as that.

We do similar. Works well.

> high level of support of event the tricky things like the scientic and gui stacks

Could it compile an app that uses Pillow and AggDraw and ReportLab and OpenPyXL with a TKInter GUI into a standalone app I can give to a coworker? That would be extremely useful!

I’ve used Nuitka to package an app that involves Pillow, mupdf, PyQt, and several other libraries, and it handles them with no problem.

That's very encouraging, I will give it a go!

And I have to ask, does a powersnail live in a powershell? =) (also a language I like that needs better GUI and EXE packaging)

I don’t know half of these but I’m almost sure that Pillow and TKInter would work.

AggDraw is an "anti-grain geometry" graphics library that works with Pillow for drawing high quality images. ReportLab is a very big PDF generating library, and OpenPyXL reads and writes XLSX format Excel spreadsheets. I use these in many of my work-related apps. Tkinter is the big question for me because it involves a lot of behind-the-scenes files. Thanks for your comment, I will give Nuitka a try!

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