Installing programs from Github

[Audun]

Hi

I downloaded Tkinter Designer, but there´s no exe there.

I´ve used Thonny as a "compiler" for running scripts, and I used it to "make" a a simple program, but I don´t know how to save as an exe, and I don´t know how I would put these files into Thonny.

Am I even using the right program ?

[rproffitt]

Python is an interpreted language, which means the source code of a Python program is converted into bytecode that is then executed by the Python virtual machine.

As such the .exe would be the Python virtual machine and not your Python apps.

[Reverend Jim]

Further...

Python gets converted to byte code which is then cached in a sub-folder. As long as the source code and packages have not changed there is no need to reconvert so subsequent runs should start faster. Also, I strongly recommend that you look into wxpython as a much better alternative to tkinter. Wxpython is a wrapper for wxwidgets which is a library of controls that are OS specific. No matter what platform you are running on, controls rendered in wxpython/wxwidgets will always render as native controls for the platform.

There is also a python package called pyinstaller which you can use to wrap a python application as an executable (.exe). I find ths useful when I want to assign custom actions for my logitech mouse. I can assign actions, for example, to hmviewer.exe (home movie viewer) rather than python.exe, which I would have to do wthout running it through pyinstaller.