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How to use py2exe and py2app

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I have more success with pyinstaller than py2exe because it's not targeted at a particular target platform. There is a complication where you need to configure pyinstaller itself for the target platform and then build the app. I scripted this though and now it builds seamlessly every time I need my app (which uses wxpython as well) to support a new platform.

I found this more practical than having different packaging systems for each platform. With those scripts I can now package even for systems I have zero experience with but which python runs on (e.g. AIX, HPUX, QNX).

I wish there was a way to use python to program the iPhone...

Write a Python interpreter. :)

Not allowed. :(

Wait -- what? Seriously? Wow. I wonder what their reasoning is.

to avoid apps that look like one thing, then mutate into something altogether different, through scripts it downloaded from the internet.

since apple approves all apps that get into the app store, they don't want apps that substantially change their own nature.

So is all data banned? (E.g. files.) Because any data can be used for that purpose.

Can Apple view the Objective-C source code of apps they're about to approve/deny, to see whether you were trying to do something shady like that?

no, i don't think "any data" could be used for that purpose. they were thinking of scenarios like this: developer writes app that can be extended substantially with scripts. somebody else writes a script that extends that app into a combination phishing scheme and porn viewer.

and no, apple does not review an app's source code, just the finished binary. a little surprising, because it seems like it would be far easier to detect malicious apps by looking at the source. i guess they decided that would be going a little too far.

You can use Mono (and IronPython): http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Mar-10.html

Whoa! Thanks!!!

There is; jailbreak it, and install "Python" from Cydia.

You can use a web console to the Google App Engine:

http://con.appspot.com/

You can have that console in your own app (i.e. having your data and domain logic available).

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