<s>[INST] py2exe - generate single executable file I thought I heard that py2exe was able to do this, but I never figured it out.  Has anyone successfully done this?  Can I see your setup.py file, and what command line options you used?
Basically I'm thinking of it giving me a single executable file that does something like unzips itself to maybe /temp and runs.
 [/INST] The way to do this using py2exe is to use the bundle_files option in your setup.py file. For a single file you will want to set bundle_files to 1, compressed to True, and set the zipfile option to None. That way it creates one compressed file for easy distribution.
Here is a more complete description of the bundle_file option quoted directly from the py2exe site*

Using "bundle_files" and "zipfile"
An easier (and better) way to create
  single-file executables is to set
  bundle_files to 1 or 2, and to set
  zipfile to None. This approach does
  not require extracting files to a
  temporary location, which provides
  much faster program startup.
Valid values for bundle_files are:

3 (default) don't bundle 
2 bundle everything but the Python interpreter
1 bundle everything, including the Python interpreter 

If zipfile is set to None, the files will be bundle
  within the executable instead of library.zip.

Here is a sample setup.py:
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe, sys, os

sys.argv.append('py2exe')

setup(
    options = {'py2exe': {'bundle_files': 1, 'compressed': True}},
    windows = [{'script': "single.py"}],
    zipfile = None,
)

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