Create a desktop icon for a Tkinter script

Question

I have written a python script with a Tkinter GUI. I would like to create a desktop icon that will execute this script so that the end-user (not myself) will be able to double-click the icon and have the GUI load, rather than 'run' the script from the terminal or python shell and then have to F5 from there.

Is there a way to do this? I have googled many arrangements of my question but most answers seem to be normal python scripts, not ones which are Tkinter based.

I am using a Raspberry Pi with Wheezy and Python 2.7

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I create executables(icons that I click to start the programs I write) using 'py2exe'. I use windows 7 and I am not sure if it would work for you with Raspberry Pi, but a google search may clear that up for you. I will provide the link below. Basically you end up with a folder with the executable(icon) and also some files, without which the executable won't work. It's unfortunate that you get this extra 'baggage', but it's still handy and the best solution I have come across. I don't think there is a much better way, but I am not 100% on that. Interestingly, I found that you could delete most of these baggage files and the executable would still work, it was trial and error, but it didn't take long. If I want to send the folder to someone, I zip it first.

py2exe is here

If you need a 64 bit binary you can get it here, along with, actually, pretty much every other version. get py2exe here also