No Python interpreter? this simple RAT installs its own copy

Re:No Python interpreter? this simple RAT installs its own copy by pansa2 on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:13AM (#26751540)

The other issue with using PyInstaller to build a program into a single binary is that every time the program runs, it needs to extract its own contents to a temporary directory. This causes slow start-up and, if the program exits abnormally, orphaned files left on disk.

I think other packaging tools have a workaround for this particular problem but, in my experience, have other issues. I’d love to use Python for building CLI tools, but building a binary is so fragile that I only use the language for prototyping, and rewrite in C++ (maybe Go in future?) for production.

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Re:No Python interpreter? this simple RAT installs its own copy by rripken on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:53PM (#26752891)

What you are describing sounds like the onefile mode. Pyinstaller also has a onedir mode which is much faster to start. I packaged some python ml models into a pyinstaller built exe and a larger java application calls them. Onedir makes for a big install but they only take a second or two to run.

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