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How to deploy a Python application as a zip file

by Asim Jalis, MetaProse.com

Create a file __main__.py containing:

print "Hello world from Python"

Zip up the Python files (in this case just this one file) into app.zip by typing:

zip app.zip *

The next step adds a shebang to the zip file and saves it as app—at this point the file app is a zip file containing all your Python sources.

echo '#!/usr/bin/env python' | cat - app.zip > app
chmod 755 app

That’s it. The file app is now have a zipped Python application that is ready to deploy as a single file.

You can run app either using a Python interpreter as:

python app

Or you can run it directly from the command line:

./app
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