Preamble: I like Python - it seems to fit my mental models well, and I'm productive writing in it. However, only just recently I tried to develop a more-than-trivial program to deploy as an executable for my Windows-using friends. This may sound naive, but I'd never thought about how hard it is, especially when mostly everything else in Python is well-tooled, well-documented, and works. If you check my post history you'll see I've been following this subject lately... in the hopes I won't have to re-write my stuff in C# or something. I got it done, but am thoroughly underwhelmed by the experience and the resulting size of the executable (due to cascading dependencies that I'd really rather not pick apart).

So here's the question - what's your take on how to package a Python program as an executable (wherein package does not mean Python package, but generate a click-and-run Windows executable)? Anything on that in the book? I can't tell from the 'Contents' list, but it seems not, right?

Congrats on the book. I'll take some time to go over the Extracts (and thanks for those, too!)