Example setup.py templates

Basic

The simplest possible setup.py script to build a py2app application looks like the following:

"""
py2app build script for MyApplication

Usage:
    python setup.py py2app
"""
from setuptools import setup
setup(
    app=["MyApplication.py"],
setup_requires=["py2app"],
)

The py2applet script can create setup.py files of this variety for you automatically:

$ py2applet --make-setup MyApplication.py

Self-bootstrapping

For ease of distribution, you may wish to have your setup.py script automatically ensure that setuptools is installed. This requires having a copy of ez_setup in your project, which can be obtained from here:

http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py

Or it may be referenced from svn:externals as such:

ez_setup svn://svn.eby-sarna.com/svnroot/ez_setup

If choosing the svn:externals approach you should consider that your project’s source code will depend on a third party, which has reliability and security implications. Also note that the ez_setup external uses the svn:// protocol (TCP port 3690) rather than http:// so it is somewhat less likely to work behind some firewalls or proxies.

Once this is done, you simply add the two line ez_setup preamble to the very beginning of your setup.py:

"""
py2app build script for MyApplication.

Will automatically ensure that all build prerequisites are available
via ez_setup.

Usage:
    python setup.py py2app
"""
import ez_setup
ez_setup.use_setuptools()

from setuptools import setup
setup(
    app=["MyApplication.py"],
setup_requires=["py2app"],
)

Cross-platform

Cross-platform applications can share a setup.py script for both py2exe and py2app. Here is an example Self-bootstrapping setup.py that will build an application on Windows or Mac OS X:

 """
 py2app/py2exe build script for MyApplication.

 Will automatically ensure that all build prerequisites are available
 via ez_setup

 Usage (Mac OS X):
     python setup.py py2app

 Usage (Windows):
     python setup.py py2exe
 """
 import ez_setup
 ez_setup.use_setuptools()

 import sys
 from setuptools import setup

 mainscript = 'MyApplication.py'

 if sys.platform == 'darwin':
     extra_options = dict(
         setup_requires=['py2app'],
         app=[mainscript],
         # Cross-platform applications generally expect sys.argv to
         # be used for opening files.
         options=dict(py2app=dict(argv_emulation=True)),
     )
 elif sys.platform == 'win32':
     extra_options = dict(
         setup_requires=['py2exe'],
         app=[mainscript],
     )
else:
     extra_options = dict(
         # Normally unix-like platforms will use "setup.py install"
         # and install the main script as such
         scripts=[mainscript],
     )

setup(
    name="MyApplication",
    **extra_options
)