Can Django be used with py2exe?

Question

We'd like to create a Django Intranet application for mass market. We only need to support Windows users, and it needs to be very easy for a Windows admin (or "technical user") to deploy (baring in mind that most Windows admins/users have little experience with Python, etc).

Is Django + py2exe the answer? Do we need something extra, or something else?

Answer 1

Yes, you require:

• Python 2.5.2
• Django (svn version at least 2008-06-05)
• CherryPy (web server)
• Py2Exe

Tutorial

Answer 2

PyInstaller has builtin support for Django applications. It will do most of the magic by itself.

Answer 3

I recently did this with Django 1.5 and python 2.7. I didn't embed a webserver, because I really just wanted the ORM.

Here are the options I used in setup.py:

options = {
 "py2exe":{
           "includes": ["Cookie","htmlentitydefs"],
           "packages":["django","sqlite3","email"],
           }
 }