how to reduce the size of a PyQt based stand-alone program

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Vince West

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Oct 27, 2016, 1:49:45 PM10/27/16

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I am working on a scientific application and I am curious if it is possible to reduce the installation size. Many potential users are not programmers and will not have python installed so I am trying to package a standalone option. For the gui parts I have written I only import QtGui, QtWidgets and QtCore from the PyQt5 library.

I notice that the PyQt5 folder is nearly 170 mb. When using PyQtGraph (and here I am only using xy line plots for the application) is it possible to manually remove elements from the PyQt directory to substantially reduce the size of the install?