zipit

Very thin wrapper around zipapp that let's you package a python module and dependencies.

Example

We'll use our demo "app" to showcase zipit.

First, let's take a look at what our app contains:

$ cd demo
$ ls app
__main__.py  requirements.txt

Our "app" contains two files:

1. __main__.py: This is the entrypoint to our app.
2. requirements.txt: This is a classic requirements file as consumed by pip.

Getting things set up

First we need to install the dependencies for our app. zipit doesn't much care how dependencies are installed. We just need to keep track of where they're installed.

Let's use pip:

mkdir deps
$ python3 -m pip install -r app/requirements.txt --target deps

zipit

Once the dependencies are installed, we can let zipit do it's work:

cd ..
$ python3 -m zipit demo/app -d demo/deps

This will produce .pyz file runable with python.

$ python3 app.pyz
Hello, World!