Simon Willison’s Weblog

4th January 2021

TIL Packaging a Python app as a standalone binary with PyInstaller — [PyInstaller](https://www.pyinstaller.org/) can take a Python script and bundle it up as a standalone executable for macOS, Linux and apparently Windows too (I've not tried it on Windows yet).

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Posted 4th January 2021 at 9:54 pm

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