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Thu 19 Aug 2010

A bbfreeze Tutorial – Build a Binary Series!

Posted by Mike under Linux, Packaging, Python, Windows
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The bbfreeze package also allows us to create binaries, but only on Linux and Windows. It’s just an easy_install away, so if you plan on following along with the examples in the article, you should go get it. The bbfreeze package includes egg support, so it can include egg dependencies in your binary, unlike py2exe. You can also freeze multiple scripts at once, include the Python interpreter and more. According to bbfreeze’s PyPI entry, it’s only been tested with Python 2.4-2.5, so keep that in mind. However, I was able to use it with Python 2.6 with no obvious problems. (more…)

 

Fri 2 Apr 2010

Python Text-to-Speech: Making Your PC Talk

Posted by Mike under Linux, Python, Windows
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Soon after getting hired at my current job, my boss sent me a script (which I think was based on this article) about Python and a certain text-to-speech module called pyTTS. This was right after Python 2.5 had released. Anyway, it’s basically a nice wrapper over the win32com module which can communicate with the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI). (more…)