I plan on using a Python (3.6) script for a project, though the final user is likely not to have Python on his system. To solve this issue and make everything as smooth as possible, I tried using Nuitka to compile my Python script and make it standalone. To do that, I just ran nuitka --standalone --recurse-all myscript.py Doing this takes a certain amount of time, but finally results in a folder with a myscript.exe that I can run just like I would run my script. Though, as soon as I try and run it on another computer, no matter whether it has Python installed, I get an error thrown: Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\Users\thoma\Desktop\recuperation.dist\recuperation.py", line 6, in <module> File "D:\Users\thoma\Desktop\recuperation.dist\requests\__init__.py", line 43, in requests File "D:\Users\thoma\Desktop\recuperation.dist\urllib3\__init__.py", line 8, in urllib3 File "D:\Users\thoma\Desktop\recuperation.dist\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 7, in connectionpool File "C:\Users\Thomas\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\socket.py", line 49, in <module> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_socket' Also, I had trouble getting it to work in the beginning, because it was missing cacert.pem, but I solved that by copying the certifi folder that I found coming with requests. Don't know if it relates. My script is using Requests, Dill, BS4 (and also json, base64, os and sys) Continue reading...
