What is the Python freeze process?

问题

The Python Doc states:

Frozen modules are modules written in Python whose compiled byte-code object is incorporated into a custom-built Python interpreter by Python’s freeze utility. See Tools/freeze/ for now.

http://docs.python.org/library/imp.html#imp.init_frozen

I don't get it. What is the freeze utility? How can it be used? Why would it be used?

回答1:

This link explains what the Python Freeze utility is in detail: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Freeze

In a nutshell, it creates a portable version of a python script that carries its own built in interpreter (basically like a binary executable), so that you can run it on machines without python.

回答2:

It's similar to tools like py2exe: You can create a single executable that runs a python program without requiring the user to install separate packages, the python interpreter, etc. It is only for Unix/Linux(/possibly OSX) systems though; on Windows you use py2exe for it.

Have a look at http://wiki.python.org/moin/Freeze for more information.

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