Converting Django app into a Desktop app

[Loai Ghoraba]

Hi

I am very comfortable with Django, and I was wondering about whether there is some way to convert a Django web app into a Desktop app (may be not 100%), so that I can distribute it to users. May be wrapping it in a light web server "if there is something like this". 

Thanks

[Jonas Geiregat]

Hi

I am very comfortable with Django, and I was wondering about whether there is some way to convert a Django web app into a Desktop app (may be not 100%), so that I can distribute it to users. May be wrapping it in a light web server "if there is something like this". 

You might try http://www.python-camelot.com/ 

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Use a module like tastiepy develop your desktop client in your preferred language and have it communicate to django via REST.

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[Chris Cogdon]

I think what Loai is asking for is a way to "wrap up" the python/django application, along with a light-weight webserver (not as light-weight as "runserver" though), so it looks like a stand-alone application... apart from needing to run a web browser to connect to it.

I, too, am very interested in this.

Just doing some cursory poking around, here's some starting points:

Python Freeze: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Freeze

cx_Freeze: http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net

Py2Exe: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Py2Exe

py2app: http://svn.pythonmac.org/py2app/py2app/trunk/doc/index.html

These handle turning the python program into a stand-alone executable. It doesn't solve the web-server issue, though. There are a ton of choices there (eg: gunicorn, twisted, tornado, web.py) but I have no opinion on which one is going to both "freeze" well, serve static files well, and work well with Django

[Loai Ghoraba]

@ all thanks for your responses, I will try to investigate them

@Chris: you got me right :) I can use runserver, but it would be too light, or make the client install and configure apache (which is not a good idea if the client is a normal user, not a programmer). 

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Chris Cogdon <ch...@cogdon.org> wrote:

I think what Loai is asking for is a way to "wrap up" the python/django application, along with a light-weight webserver (not as light-weight as "runserver" though), so it looks like a stand-alone application... apart from needing to run a web browser to connect to it.

eNo module named _tkinter, please install the python-tk package

I, too, am very interested in this.

Just doing some cursory poking around, here's some starting points:

Python Freeze: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Freeze

cx_Freeze: http://cx-freeze.sourceforge.net

Py2Exe: http://wiki.python.org/moin/Py2Exe

py2app: http://svn.pythonmac.org/py2app/py2app/trunk/doc/index.html

These handle turning the python program into a stand-alone executable. It doesn't solve the web-server issue, though. There are a ton of choices there (eg: gunicorn, twisted, tornado, web.py) but I have no opinion on which one is going to both "freeze" well, serve static files well, and work well with Django

On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 8:06:19 AM UTC-8, Loai Ghoraba wrote:

Hi

I am very comfortable with Django, and I was wondering about whether there is some way to convert a Django web app into a Desktop app (may be not 100%), so that I can distribute it to users. May be wrapping it in a light web server "if there is something like this". 

Thanks

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[peter]

You can use xampp. Create a automatic installer that install xampp and django with your app.
Just like Kordi EDMS. http://www.kordil.net/.

[Chris Cogdon]

No Python included with xampp... this makes me sad ;_;

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Don't realy mathers is xampp comes or not with python, you just need to add wsgi module to xampp. and then configure your app to run from
xampp.
 

[peter]

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I'm not read the hole article, but the author say 'It works'.

http://www.leonardaustin.com/technical/install-python-and-django-with-xampp-on-windows-7

Is run in windows definitely is going to run on unix :)

[Chris Cogdon]

Personally, I'd prefer something that didn't require packaging up additional programs (xampp and python, in this example).

It should be _perfectly possible_ to find a native-python moderate performance webserver, then wrap up that, django, the application and the python interpreter into a single package.

[Loai Ghoraba]

@all thanks a lot, I will try your suggestions, may be mixing them :)

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http://portablepython.com/

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[Filip Wasilewski]

Hi,

On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 5:06:19 PM UTC+1, Loai Ghoraba wrote:

Hi

I am very comfortable with Django, and I was wondering about whether there is some way to convert a Django web app into a Desktop app (may be not 100%), so that I can distribute it to users. May be wrapping it in a light web server "if there is something like this". 

I've been recently going through the process of distributing Django web application with binary dependencies (NumPy/SciPy) as an one-click executable. I have evaluated several solutions and the most effective was creating a single-file binary package using PyInstaller (pyinstaller.org, development version with some modifications for proper dependency discovery). As for the web server I went with the pure-Python CherryPy server (cherrypy.org). See https://gist.github.com/4349257 for sample server script.

Filip

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[Mike Dewhirst]

See also https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/393/ by Ryan
Kelly and his 'esky' package for safely updating distributed apps. There
is a link to that and other items in the above pycon talk.

Mike

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[Loai Ghoraba]

@Filib: thanks a lot, seems that is what I will need exactly :)

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[Loai Ghoraba]

actually I were busy in some other stuff lately, so I didn't try any :) plus I found that even if I tried then it will be useless to my needs, sorry :)

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@Loai, how did Pyinstaller work out for you? Is that the route you took?

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[Kevin London]

Oh okay, interesting. Thank you for following up. I'm going down the Pyinstaller route, I think. Support for Django in Pyinstaller is so recent that I'm hitting a number of snags, so I might need to go py2app if it doesn't pan out yet. Thanks to everyone so far for their contributions, this has been a very helpful thread in working through the distributing problem.

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[Loai Ghoraba]

thanks a lot, I will look at them if I have time :)

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Czarek Tomczak <czarek....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Loai,

Have a look at CEF Python that embeds Chrome browser:

https://code.google.com/p/cefpython/

You will need to run a web server to convert it into a desktop application, have a look

at CefBottleDesktop that embeds CEF and runs a python web server along with

bottle.py framework.

Also have a look at Python Desktop that embeds Internet Explorer browser and

Mongoose web server:
https://code.google.com/p/phpdesktop/wiki/EmbeddingOtherScriptingLanguages

I am the author of both projects.

Cheers,

Czarek.

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[Kevin London]

Just to follow up on this, I wound up using py2app, although it made things considerably more complicated. I made a Github repo during testing which can be found here. It's incomplete as I moved from testing into using py2app on the intended application, but it should at least provide some clues.

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