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authorZachary Ware <zachary.ware@gmail.com>2014-01-17 14:59:44 (GMT)
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Issue #20266: Update parts of the Windows FAQ
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How do I make an executable from a Python script?
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-See http://www.py2exe.org/ for a distutils extension that allows you
+See http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net/ for a distutils extension that allows you
to create console and GUI executables from Python code.
+`py2exe <http://www.py2exe.org/>`_, the most popular extension for building
+Python 2.x-based executables, does not yet support Python 3 but a version that
+does is in development.
+
Is a ``*.pyd`` file the same as a DLL?
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-.. XXX update for py3k (PyInit_foo)
-
Yes, .pyd files are dll's, but there are a few differences. If you have a DLL
-named ``foo.pyd``, then it must have a function ``initfoo()``. You can then
+named ``foo.pyd``, then it must have a function ``PyInit_foo()``. You can then
write Python "import foo", and Python will search for foo.pyd (as well as
-foo.py, foo.pyc) and if it finds it, will attempt to call ``initfoo()`` to
+foo.py, foo.pyc) and if it finds it, will attempt to call ``PyInit_foo()`` to
initialize it. You do not link your .exe with foo.lib, as that would cause
Windows to require the DLL to be present.