Run a Python script without the IDE

Question

I have a python script I wrote which uses tkinter and panda to: choose a CSV file on the desktop, imports in that data, does some stuff, exports the new dataframe created i

Answer 1

Thanks to @abarnert, the solution was to use Pyinstaller which allows me to "freeze" the code into an exe file

Answer 2

You can write a small executable script based upon your OS

Windows

Create a .bat file in which you need there needs to the command to execute your python file.

e.g. c:\python27\python.exe c:\somescript.py %*

For reference look here

MacOS / Linux

Create a .sh file which can be executed from your shell/terminal or by double clicking its sym link.
Your .sh file will look like

#!/bin/bash

python PATH_TO_YOUR_PYTHON_FILE

Then you must make it executable via running the following in terminal

chmod u+x PATH_TO_.SH_FILE

Alternatively you can create a symbolic link to your python file and make it executable. This symlink will be executable by double click. To create a symlink:

ln -sf PATH_TO_.SH_FILE PATH_OF_SYMLINK

If you put just a name in place of PATH_OF_SYMLINK it will be created in your present directory.