I've coded a game in Pygame using Pycharm, and I want to make it into a downloadable desktop application so that other people can download and use it even if they do not have python or the necessary files. The problem is I don't know how to. I've heard of py2exe and py2app before. I tried py2exe but then realized that .exe was for windows, and I was using a Mac. I read the py2app documentation, but it was very confusing and hard to understand, and none of the things they said worked. They said to use the pip command to install py2app inside the terminal, but I tried it and it said that it did not recognize the pip command. Can someone please help? Thanks!
Sorry if this question is long. I am trying to tell as much information as possible.
You can use pyinstaller if you package the application in Mac OS it will run on Mac.
Click here for instruction on how to install the package and use it.
Which installation of Python do you use? I had bad experience with Homebrew when it came to packaging, then I've removed it and switched to Python3.9 downloaded directly from python.org and everything works well now.
Depending on your Python installation, it is possible that you don't have pip installed on your computer. Via terminal, you can check it using
python -m pip --version
and you should get a response of this type:
pip X.Y.Z from .../site-packages/pip (python X.Y)
If you don't have pip, you can either re-install Python as mentioned above, or you can just install pip using these instructions.
As soon as you have pip installed, you can install py2app using
pip install py2app
ERROR: Shapely-1.6.4.post2-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.
I cannot install Shapely with:
pip install "C:/path.../Shapely-1.6.4.post2-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl
This is what I have tried so far:
* pip install --upgrade pip
* Python version 3.6.4, Windows 64 bit
Should I be installing another version? cp36 and win_amd64 looks correct. Unless amd means the CPU? In that case I have Intel i5. I don't see that version so I don't think that's it...
Any other suggestions on what I am doing wrong?
EDIT: Downloaded wheel from here: https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#shapely
There's a helpful complete guide here to do so. Windows have many problems with python wheel files. If you want my advice, you better don't use Windows for python programming, Linux is perfect for such a thing. You can use Ubuntu which is great and stable.
If you really want to program python in Windows, I suggest you to install and use Anaconda. It's a great tool and helps you with installing python packages and programming in python.
EDIT: I tried the Anaconda way and it works fine. After installing Anaconda I opened Anaconda Powershell Prompt as admin (cause there was permission problem for me in installing Shapely!) and then ran the command conda install shapely. Once installation completed, I ran the command jupyter notebook and in jupyter I was able to use Shapely.
I installed the Shapely in the base environment of conda which is not good. If you want use Anaconda, you better learn how to manage environments in conda.
please help installing SciPy. I think i've tried almost any advice i could find, but still no luck.
I am using Mac High OS Sierra 10.13.1, python 3.7, trying to make this work for IntellIJ IDEA 2017.2 IDE. I have Xcode version 9.2 if that helps.
I've tried instaling from IDE, using package installer -> fails with error status code 1.
I've tried installing using pip3 install scipy
I've installed brew install gcc ( I have version 7.2.0 installed)
I've installed numpy.
I've tried to install using Macports as suggested on official site - didn't help.
I've tried to instal using brew install scipy.
I've tried to install using Conda. It installed somewhere to Conda Dir, but i still cannot access library from python file using import scipy, error: No module named scipy.
Looks like i am just going in loops now, can some one suggest any idea please?
Topics i researched:
SciPy build/install Mac Osx
Can't install Scipy through pip
"failed with error code 1" while installing scipy
Some other ones i lost links to.
Ok looks like i made it work.
This thread: helped me.
It appeared I was actaully able to install scipy package using conda. But my Python didn't see the package. So i had to:
Change Right Click on my project in IDE > Project > New > Python SDK > Add Local
Select Python in Conda dir. In my case it was /Users/[my user ]/miniconda3/bin/python3.6
Restart IDE just in case and my python script was able to see import scipy.
The downside of this - that I cannot install packages the clean way from IDE anymore for some reason. I.e. Tools > Manage Python Packages > + > doesn't find any. And I have to reinstall all the packages i had using conda install [package name] from terminal . But I am fine with it, as long as it works.
Hopefully my quest might be useful for someone.
I recently used homebrew to install pyqt (along with qt & sip), but get an import error whenever I try to import PyQt4 in Python 3 (which was also installed using homebrew). To confuse matters more, I am able to import PyQt4 on Python 2 via the terminal.
I'm totally new to working with Python packages and, with that, totally confused. Any thoughts on how I might be able to undo what I did and reinstall so that I can access PyQt via the usr/local/python3 installation?
Thanks in advance!
brew reinstall pyqt --with-python3 will get you sorted!
There will be seperatelibrary files for python2 and python3. From your question, it seems that you have installed pyqt for python2 which you can't import in python3.
For python3, you have to install specific package developed for python3.
Here is a similar question regarding python3 pyqt installation using homebrew. It says, there is currently some limitation with homebrew.
Install pyqt via homebrew with `--with-python3` but still goes to Python 2
EDIT:
Developer of homebrew has resolved the issue.
I'm using Python 3.4 on Windows. When I run a script, it complains
ImportError: No Module named 'PyQt4'
So I tried to install it, but pip install PyQt4 gives
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement PyQt4
although it does show up when I run pip search PyQt4. I tried to pip install python-qt, which installed successfully but that didn't solve the problem.
What am I doing wrong?
Here are Windows wheel packages built by Chris Golke - Python Windows Binary packages - PyQt
In the filenames cp27 means C-python version 2.7, cp35 means python 3.5, etc.
Since Qt is a more complicated system with a compiled C++ codebase underlying the python interface it provides you, it can be more complex to build than just a pure python code package, which means it can be hard to install it from source.
Make sure you grab the correct Windows wheel file (python version, 32/64 bit), and then use pip to install it - e.g:
C:\path\where\wheel\is\> pip install PyQt4-4.11.4-cp35-none-win_amd64.whl
Should properly install if you are running an x64 build of Python 3.5.
QT no longer supports PyQt4, but you can install PyQt5 with pip:
pip install PyQt5
You can't use pip. You have to download from the Riverbank website and run the installer for your version of python. If there is no install for your version, you will have to install Python for one of the available installers, or build from source (which is rather involved). Other answers and comments have the links.
If you install PyQt4 on Windows, files wind up here by default:
C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4*.*
but it also leaves a file here:
C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\sip.pyd
If you copy the both the sip.pyd and PyQt4 folder into your virtualenv things will work fine.
For example:
mkdir c:\code
cd c:\code
virtualenv BACKUP
cd c:\code\BACKUP\scripts
activate
Then with windows explorer copy from C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages the file (sip.pyd) and folder (PyQt4) mentioned above to C:\code\BACKUP\Lib\site-packages\
Then back at CLI:
cd ..
(c:\code\BACKUP)
python backup.py
The problem with trying to launch a script which calls PyQt4 from within virtualenv is that the virtualenv does not have PyQt4 installed and it doesn't know how to reference the default installation described above. But follow these steps to copy PyQt4 into your virtualenv and things should work great.
Earlier PyQt .exe installers were available directly from the website download page. Now with the release of PyQt4.12 , installers have been deprecated. You can make the libraries work somehow by compiling them but that would mean going to great lengths of trouble.
Otherwise you can use the previous distributions to solve your purpose. The .exe windows installers can be downloaded from :
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyqt/files/PyQt4/PyQt-4.11.4/
It looks like you may have to do a bit of manual installation for PyQt4.
http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/PyQt4/installation.html
This might help a bit more, it's a bit more in a tutorial/set-by-step format:
http://movingthelamppost.com/blog/html/2013/07/12/installing_pyqt____because_it_s_too_good_for_pip_or_easy_install_.html
With current latest python 3.6.5
pip3 install PyQt5
works fine
For Windows:
download the appropriate version of the PyQt4 from here:
https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyqt4
and install it using pip (example for Python3.6 - 64bit)
pip install PyQt4‑4.11.4‑cp36‑cp36m‑win_amd64.whl
Try this for PyQt5:
pip install PyQt5
Use the operating system on this link for PyQt4.
Or download the supported wheel for your platform on this link.
Else use this link for the windows executable installer.
Hopefully this helps you to install either PyQt4 or PyQt5.
install PyQt5 for Windows 10 and python 3.5+.
pip install PyQt5
If you have error while installing PyQt4.
Error: PyQt4-4.11.4-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl is not a supported wheel on this
platform.
My system type is 64 bit, But to solve this error I have installed PyQt4 of 32 bit windows system, i.e PyQt4-4.11.4-cp27-cp27m-win32.whl - click here to see more versions.
Kindly select appropriate version of PyQt4 according to your installed python version.
You can also use this command to install PyQt5.
pip3 install PyQt5
I am using PyCharm, and was able to install PyQt5.
PyQt4, as well as PyQt4Enhanced and windows_whl both failed to install, I'm guessing that's because Qt4 is no longer supported.
Try using python 3.6,
then install sip
pip install sip
then follow the steps mentioned by #Jay https://stackoverflow.com/a/48078369/8352081