Normally games made with pygame are not playable from the web. They can only be run from the command line or use PyInstaller or cx_Freeze to create a standalone executable. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

I have found PyInstaller [1] to work well for packaging everything into a single ZIP file that unzips to a folder with an executable binary and all accompanying files (or even a single EXE file that self-extracts when run, but that increases startup time). It knows how to package PyQt and its associated Qt libraries (or PySide, which I actually prefer) so that they can be shipped with your application. [1... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

PyInstaller is the main way to build a Python executable. I'd recommenced bundling your program in the default one-folder mode and uploading it to Itch. Source: about 1 year ago

There are tools, not from Python Software Foundation (or officially supported by them), such as Pyinstaller, that will try to produce a single executable file that you can distribute for people to install. Of course, this would depend on the controls on the end user devices allowing such an installation. There can be some compatibility challenges, but if you are using reasonably standard Python it shall probably... Source: over 1 year ago

And to deploy your program you can use one of the programs that will compile your Python code in to an executable such as PyInstaller or Nuitka. Source: over 1 year ago

Seems a good place to mention https://sciter.com/ It's been on HN loads of times. A "browser" engine but very narrow scope. Works a treat for LOB type apps. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

> wondering if css and svg could be used as abstraction over graphics and UI libraries There's another project called Sciter that uses CSS to target native graphics libraries: https://sciter.com > I wonder how hard it was to implement css. I've heard it can be pretty complex. It was hard, but the biggest barrier is the obscurity of the knowledge. Text layout is the hardest, because working with glyphs and... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

[2] https://sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/select-variants.png. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

Otherwise, if we have only retained mode as in browsers, we will need to modify the DOM heavily and create temporary elements for handles. [1] https://sciter.com. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

An embedded engine is also a much faster path to viable use cases. For example Sciter [1] has some degree of success despite implementing only a sane subset of the DOM API. It doesn't work well for general internet surfing, but when used as an UI library you just avoid the parts that don't work. 1: https://sciter.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago