Convert Python Files To EXE using PyInstaller | PyGame Tutorial 

after days and days of trying to debug the problem, i finally came across your video , can't thank you enough , you're literally helping me pay my rent. thank you

Ha, I just finished your shooter tutorial and went to another tab of RU-vid just to search for a video like this. Without really reading the author, "Oh this one looks promising!" And suddenly it's the voice I just finished listening to. Imagine that lol!

Thanks so much for this! You went in depth perfectly with all of the errors and perfectly explained how to fix them

Love your way of teaching and guiding, man!

Another very helpful vid, and also thanks again for the quick response, Russ. Btw, are these instructions applicable to Macs as well? Or it doesn't matter --- it works for same for both Macs and Windows? Thanks.

Thank you Russ!!! My first script has been processed to an executable now.

This guy and his videos DOMINATE

Exactly I was looking for. Now I can make apps using python. Thanks!

i have been trying to use pyinstaller for like a year straight for this shitty space invaders clone i made and this is the only video that has explained it properly

yes i was one of the people that suggested this video idea!

Does not seem to work on mac if there are other .png files (like the ones you have shown in the example above). Have you tried on mac? Thanks

Very helpful, thx! Doubt: The sample game that I used to taste this had the __file__ dir path to get the images. I had to get rid of that and use relative import. Is that the correct way to do it?

You are a lifesaver! Thank you!

typical pyinstaller' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I dont know why, but when i type pyinstaller it comes with an error, I do have it installed and i do have a python file. Is this because my game does not the pygame extention or because of a new release of pip??

Hello can you help, when i run the "pyinstaller platformer --onefile --windowed" i get a UPX is not available.

Real-time antivirus protections blocks this file from being created as it thinks it contains a virus. Is there a way around this other than simply disabling anti-virus?

i have a small app. I want to know if there is a way to essentially include the assets within the executable file?

Could we bundle the images into the executable itself by using the pyinstaller flag for data?

Thank you for sharing

Thank you for clarifiying my issue!!!

I use conda environment because I have so many packages like Langchain or other...and it don't work...How can I do ?

I would like to ask you what we should do, if we want to access all of our projects in PyCharm on another device after we have installed Windows 11 for example - is it an option to convert all python files into to EXE, put it on a USB and then plug it into the new device?

bro you are a genius!

you are my savior! Thank you!!!

failed to execute script 'game' due to unhandled exception: expected str, bytes or os.Pathlikeobject, not BytesIO failed to obtain/convert traceback!

I'm trying to change the folder my strip is located. How do we do this? Thanks in advance!

Hey thanks for the tutorial but whenever I do exactly what you did it shows "permission denied" any solution please

Holy moly adjusting the PATH to get the pyinstaller command working took some thought. I wonder why it ended up where it did.

Thanks you so much ...perfectly working

im making a game engne built on pygame, this is really useful, im gonna try make a python or batch file to automate this

Pyinstaller in not recognised, plz help on this error

i get the error message "pygame.error: video system not initialized", but the code runs fine, what do I do

that's really helpful

when i do windowed it says this app cannot run on your pc im using windows 11 if that does anything

Does a method exist for storing images inside of .exe files?

Thank u sir, this helped me alot! Is there a more performant way to create an exe? It takes much time until the exe is started...

Wow it works ty

Even after I’ve opened the command line from within the file & and download pyinstaller it tells me pyinstaller isn’t recognized as a internal or external command. Any help for this?

Didn't know I had a coding channel.

im having trouble converting.The executable file is doing nothing.PLs help

do you have to install it every time?

thank you so mucch

When I open exe file it just opens for a while as black screen and then disappeares. Please help me!!!!

hello thanks for the tutorial. however i have an error zhen i want to launcher the .exe file I use a module named wxglade it's a module that help make a graphic interface to my game(i made a launcher zith game in them) and i can't find how to fix it anywhere. some help would be awesome

Ok so I have been trying to do this with the platformer game that you did I finished through all 13 videos and when I tried to run the EXE it still popped up but then closed shortly after any help?

Has anyone had any luck getting their Steam Deck to play their packaged Pygame games? I managed to package my pygame game and it runs on windows on my pc so I know there's no errors. I successfully ran a python shell packaged game and it actually works on Steam Deck. So I finally tried my Pygame on the Steam Deck. It managed to unpack or install it. But it doesn't play, it closes straight away. I tried Proton experimental but that doesn't work either. Anyone got ideas?

I dont have "pip" command in my cmd. Why?

I get an error stating Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 1, in import pygame, sys, random, button ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pygame' im not sure how to correct this. Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks, wonder why the exe still opens a cmd in the background, was hoping creating this exe would not requre the cmd to be open.

thanks. however, i'm looking for a way which 1 exe file can include all assets (images, sound...). could you help me?

pls help ('pyinstaller' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.)

script 'C:\Users\Tj\platformer.py' not found

it says pyinstalle is allready installed and then i do the next command it says pyinstaller is not recognised

Can we do it in a phone?

God bless you

for me it says pyinstaller is not a command or some thing

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I like to make a batch file with all commands to create an exe file from a tiny python script with the name test.py. Please add the commands. @echo off pip?

Amazing

'pyinstaller' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I get the error import pygame no module namend 'pygame'

pyinstaller : The term 'pyinstaller' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. im getting this error and cant fix it ._.

'pyinstaller' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. i got this error, article did not resolve it for me so im stuck..

Thank you for the tutorial! But I was just wondering, If I send it to a friend does he need to have python installed on his PC?

I did what you show on the video but nothing succied

When i try to "pip install pyinstaller" it says that isn't recognised as a internal or external command

ty

Perfect!... I have one doubt here. If you want to share this exe file to someone.. You need to give all other files too right.?- In this scenario, you just having some png's. thats not a big deal. if you share... Coming to my scenario, I have multiple py's that interlinked and one is main file. Once I convert main.py to main.exe., If i keep in this directory then exe will work. If I want to share to my team members, I can't share other py's files. Bcoz if i share they can view the code and modifies too. I need to share only one .exe file. What's solution for this? Thank you in advance.

Very useful. ✅ Btw, is there a way to obfuscate the exe file? Like a video game on a CD?

the problem on my program says "Nomodule named pygame". what is the solution?

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pygame' help me plz

it delets my exe whean i did the windowed

Thanks for doing the video! When I run the EXE in my main folder, Windows 10 says, "This app can't run on your PC." I tried 'run as administrator.' No luck with that, either. App runs fine under Python, though.

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it doesnt recognize pygame as a module pls help it works fine in vsc

hi want help

f it doesnt work recognise your command run "python -m PyInstaller script.py --onefile"

@Coding with Russ Hey Russ. Could you make a similar video on how to convert PyGame Python file (your game for example) into APK for Android?

it did not recongnize pyinstaller as a command but it recongnized pip

i get pyinstaller is not reconized

Просто лучший!!!

This for some reason gave me a trojan horse virus i took care of it but wtf

this dont work, pyinstaller aint recongized

Need microscope to see

Muito obrigado, funcionou!

I had a problem where I opened up everything like you showed but it says cannot find my .py file. C:\Users\trist\Desktop\SlimeRanger>pyinstaller Slime.py --onefile 386 INFO: PyInstaller: 5.7.0 386 INFO: Python: 3.11.1 398 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 399 INFO: wrote C:\Users\trist\Desktop\SlimeRanger\Slime.spec 403 INFO: UPX is not available. script 'C:\Users\trist\Desktop\SlimeRanger\Slime.py' not found C:\Users\trist\Desktop\SlimeRanger> but it updated my folder directory with a build, dist and spec file although they are all empty

i have this error: File "game.py", line 1, in ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pygame'

And what if you have multiple PYthon files?

'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

'pyinstaller' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.