[Python-Dev] Single-file Python executables (original) (raw)

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Thu May 28 20:36:44 CEST 2015

On May 28, 2015 at 2:33:25 PM, Carl Meyer (carl at oddbird.net) wrote:

On 05/28/2015 11:52 AM, Paul Moore wrote: [snip] > Nevertheless, I would like to understand how Unix can manage to have a > Python 3.4.3 binary at 4kb. Does that really have no external > dependencies (other than the C library)? Are we really comparing like > with like here?

I don't know what Donald was looking at, but I'm not seeing anything close to that 4k figure here. (Maybe he's on OS X, where framework builds have a "stub" executable that just execs the real one?) On my Ubuntu Trusty system, the system Python 3.4 executable is 3.9M, and the one I compiled myself from source, without any special options, is almost 12M. (Not really sure what accounts for that difference - Ubuntu system Python uses shared libraries for more stuff?) Carl

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The problem is I'm an idiot and did du -h against which python, which of course resolved to the symlink of python that points to python3.4. The real executable on my OSX box is 2.6M (built using pyenv).

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