| sorry, I didn't refresh my browser page before I sent that last 
e-mail.  Glad to see it worked! Yeah, the data isn't automatically copied, that's why I specified that I had to copy my data over. You can easily write a script that will copy your data over, using os functions, or shutil, or something. That would be a question for the tutor@xxxxxxxxxx mailing list. Hi Luke,     That is OK, I also downloaded 
that one skeleton form from that other game and that is below. It was something 
someone else mentioned to me to do. I also had modified that other batch file as 
well.     The only modification I had made 
to it was to delete or comment out I mean, the references to the Windows 
command. I am using only the console for now because I am totally blind and the 
screen for Pygame is not screen reader friendly at the moment.     So I just added the console 
command instead and all works fine. Transports over my data file and all the 
sound files. The interesting error I was getting in the Windows command was from 
the raw_input command and where ever I had placed it. So I figured out quickly 
what was going on and got rid of the windows reference...     So now I can compile my game and 
have it all inside the dist folder. Now to have it all zipped up immediately as 
well.      Also, in this file below there 
needs to be added the statement to not load all files that are not needed. I get 
a lot of stuff in this file that I did not get in the other one. In other words 
I get everything and probably do not need most of it. The dist folder ends up 
being 29 megs...      Any suggestions would be 
helpful!     Luke, if you want to have this 
skeleton form here is that setup.py file I am using and the commented out 
windows and reference to the icon.ico... Using: python25 setup.py py2exe Setup.py File: APP_NAME = 'Trek_Game' cfg = { 'name':APP_NAME, 'version':'1.0', 'description':'', 'author':'', 'author_email':'', 'url':'', 'py2exe.target':'', # 'py2exe.icon':'icon.ico', #64x64 'py2exe.binary':APP_NAME, #leave off the .exe, it will be added 'py2app.target':'', 'py2app.icon':'icon.icns', #128x128 'cx_freeze.cmd':'~/src/cx_Freeze-3.0.3/FreezePython', 'cx_freeze.target':'', 'cx_freeze.binary':APP_NAME, } # usage: python setup.py command # # sdist - build a source dist # py2exe - build an exe # py2app - build an app # cx_freeze - build a linux binary (not implemented) # # the goods are placed in the dist dir for you to .zip up or whatever... from distutils.core import setup, Extension try: import py2exe except: pass import sys import glob import os import shutil try: cmd = sys.argv[1] except IndexError: print 'Usage: setup.py py2exe|py2app|cx_freeze' raise SystemExit # utility for adding subdirectories def add_files( dest, generator): for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in generator: for name in 'CVS', '.svn': if name in dirnames: dirnames.remove(name)         for name in 
filenames: if '~' in name: continue suffix = os.path.splitext(name)[1] if suffix in ('.pyc', '.pyo'): continue if name[0] == '.': continue filename = os.path.join(dirpath, name) dest.append(filename) # define what is our data data = "">add_files( data, os.walk('data')) data.extend( glob.glob('*.txt')) # define what is our source src = "">add_files( src, os.walk('lib')) src.extend( glob.glob('*.py')) # build the sdist target if cmd == 'sdist': f = open( "MANIFEST.in", "w") for l in data: f.write("include "+l+"\n") for l in src: f.write("include "+l+"\n") f.close() setup( name=cfg['name'], version=cfg['version'], description=cfg['description'], author=cfg['author'], author_email=cfg['author_email'], url=""> ) # build the py2exe target if cmd in ('py2exe',): dist_dir = os.path.join('dist',cfg['py2exe.target']) data_dir = dist_dir src = '' dest = cfg['py2exe.binary']+'.py' shutil.copy(src,dest) setup( options={'py2exe':{ 'dist_dir':dist_dir, 'dll_excludes':['_dotblas.pyd','_numpy.pyd'] }}, # windows=[{ console=[{ 'script':dest, # 'icon_resources':[(1,cfg['py2exe.icon'])], }], ) # build the py2app target if cmd == 'py2app': dist_dir = os.path.join('dist',cfg['py2app.target']+'.app') data_dir = os.path.join(dist_dir,'Contents','Resources') from setuptools import setup     src = '' dest = cfg['py2app.target']+'.py' shutil.copy(src,dest)     APP = [dest] DATA_FILES = [] OPTIONS = {'argv_emulation': True, 'iconfile':cfg['py2app.icon']}     setup( app=APP, data_files=DATA_FILES, options={'py2app': OPTIONS}, setup_requires=['py2app'], ) # make the cx_freeze target if cmd == 'cx_freeze': dist_dir = os.path.join('dist',cfg['cx_freeze.target']) data_dir = dist_dir os.system('%s --install-dir %s --target-name %s trek10.py'%(cfg['cx_freeze.cmd'],cfg['cx_freeze.binary'],dist_dir)) # recursively make a bunch of folders def make_dirs(dname_): parts = list(os.path.split(dname_)) dname = None while len(parts): if dname == None: dname = parts.pop(0) else: dname = os.path.join(dname,parts.pop(0)) if not os.path.isdir(dname): os.mkdir(dname) # copy data into the binaries  if cmd in ('py2exe','cx_freeze','py2app'): dest = data_dir for fname in data: dname = os.path.join(dest,os.path.dirname(fname)) make_dirs(dname) if not os.path.isdir(fname): shutil.copy(fname,dname) |