py2app - Create standalone Mac OS X applications with Python

py2app is a Python setuptools command which will allow you to make standalone application bundles and plugins from Python scripts. py2app is similar in purpose and design to py2exe for Windows.

Contents

• Installation
  • Installing with pip
  • Installing with easy_install
  • Installing from source
  • Upgrade Notes
• Dependencies
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Tutorial
  • Create a setup.py file
  • Clean up your build directories
  • Development with alias mode
  • Running your application
  • Building for deployment
• Tweaking your Info.plist
  • Commonly customized keys
  • Specifying customizations
  • Universal Binaries
• Example setup.py templates
  • Basic
  • Self-bootstrapping
  • Cross-platform
• py2app Options
  • Option Reference
• Recipes
  • Common causes for incompatibility
  • Built-in recipes
  • Developing Recipes
• Implementation Details
  • Argument Parsing
  • Run build command
  • Depdency resolution via modulegraph
  • Apply recipes
  • Apply filters
  • Produce graphs
  • Create the .app bundle
  • Include Mach-O dependencies
  • Strip the result
  • Copy Python configuration
• py2applet
• Release history
  • py2app 0.9
  • py2app 0.8.1
  • py2app 0.8
  • py2app 0.7.4
  • py2app 0.7.3
  • py2app 0.7.2
  • py2app 0.7.1
  • py2app 0.7
  • py2app 0.6.4
  • py2app 0.6.3
  • py2app 0.6.2
  • py2app 0.6.1
  • py2app 0.6
  • py2app 0.5.2
  • py2app 0.5.1
  • py2app 0.5
  • py2app 0.4.3
  • py2app 0.4.2
  • py2app 0.4.0
  • py2app 0.3.6
  • py2app 0.3.5
  • py2app 0.3.4
  • py2app 0.3.3
  • py2app 0.3.2
  • py2app 0.3.1
  • py2app 0.3.0
  • py2app 0.2.1
  • py2app 0.2.0
  • py2app 0.1.9
  • py2app 0.1.8
  • py2app 0.1.7
  • py2app 0.1.6
  • py2app 0.1.5
  • py2app 0.1.4
  • py2app 0.1.3
  • py2app 0.1.2
  • py2app 0.1.1
  • py2app 0.1

Online Resources

There are several online resources to help you get along with py2app.

Mailing list:

http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/pythonmac-sig/

Issue tracker:

http://bitbucket.org/ronaldoussoren/py2app/issues

Source code repository:

https://bitbucket.org/ronaldoussoren/py2app/src

PyPI Entry:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/py2app/

If you’re looking for help, pay special attention to the examples folder in the source, which demonstrates many common use cases.

License

py2app may be distributed under the MIT or PSF open source licenses.

Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com>.

Copyright (c) 2010-2012 Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>.