InnoPython Tutorial

Welcome to the tutorial! Let’s start simple:

import innopython
setup = innopython.setup()
setup.appname = 'Test'
setup.appdir = 'test'
setup.appver = 1.0
setup.license = 'C:\\Users\\abc123\\Documents\\LICENSE_1_0.txt'
setup.files = {'C:\\Users\\abc123\\Documents\\test.py':'{app}\\innopython.py'}
setup.build()

Let’s explain it one line at a time:

import innopython

This one’s rather obvious; it imports InnoPython.

setup = innopython.setup()

This creates a new instance of the setup class.

setup.appname = 'Test'

This sets the library name to Test.

setup.appdir = 'test'

This sets the subdirectory of site-packages the app will be installed into.

setup.appver = 1.0

This sets the application version.

setup.license = 'C:\\Users\\abc123\\Documents\\LICENSE_1_0.txt'

This sets the program’s license.

setup.files = {'C:\\Users\\abc123\\Documents\\test.py': '{app}\\test.py'}

This is the interesting part. It sets the files that will be added to the installer.

The dictionary is composed like this:

srcpath: dstpath

srcpath is the file to add, while dstpath is the destination location.

Wait, what’s the {app} for? That is replaced with the installation directory you set, or the site-packages root if you didn’t set an installation directory.

And now, the final step:

setup.build()

This generates the Inno Setup script. Now we can just open the script in the Inno Setup compiler to compile the result.

Voila! That’s pretty much everything!