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Re:Ask HN: What is the recommended way to create Windows des... by majewsky on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @08:40AM (#12351556)
> everything should be contained in the application, so python based apps are probably not very good.

http://www.py2exe.org/ -- but I don't know how large the resulting EXEs are, so that might break your size requirement.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the recommended way to create Windows des... by vram22 on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @06:25PM (#12355727)
There's also PyInstaller. I've tried it out a bit, to create standalone Windows EXEs from small Python apps - under 1K LOC, both command-line and GUI (the GUI ones were wxPython). Worked okay for me. ~10 MB EXE size. This is anecdotal though. Can't speak to how stable it is in general, or for bigger apps.
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