shiv

shiv is a command line utility for building fully self-contained Python zipapps as outlined in PEP 441, but with all their dependencies included!

shiv's primary goal is making distributing Python applications fast & easy.

Full documentation can be found here.

sys requirements

• python3.6+
• linux/osx/windows

how to

shiv has a few command line options of its own and accepts almost all options passable to pip install.

simple cli example

Creating an executable of pipenv with shiv:

$ shiv -c pipenv -o ~/bin/pipenv pipenv pew
$ ~/bin/pipenv --version
pipenv, version 2018.05.18

complex example involving a wheel cache

Creating an interactive executable with a downloaded wheel of boto:

$ python3 -m pip download boto
Collecting boto
  File was already downloaded /tmp/tmp.iklsO1qyd3/boto-2.48.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Successfully downloaded boto
$ shiv -o boto.pyz --find-links . --no-index boto
 shiv! 🔪
Collecting boto
Installing collected packages: boto
Successfully installed boto-2.48.0
 done
$ ./boto.pyz
Python 3.6.1 (default, Apr 19 2017, 21:58:41)
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-4)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
(InteractiveConsole)
>>> import boto
>>>

installing

You can install shiv via pip / pypi

pip install shiv

You can even create a pyz of shiv using shiv!

python3 -m venv shiv
source shiv/bin/activate
pip install shiv
shiv -c shiv -o shiv shiv

developing

We'd love contributions! Getting bootstrapped to develop is easy:

git clone git@github.com:linkedin/shiv.git
cd shiv
python3 setup.py venv
. activate
python3 setup.py develop

Don't forget to run and write tests:

pip install tox
tox

gotchas

Zipapps created with shiv are not cross-compatible with other architectures. For example, a pyz file built on a Mac will only work on other Macs, likewise for RHEL, etc.

Zipapps created with shiv will extract themselves into ~/.shiv, unless overridden via SHIV_ROOT. If you create many utilities with shiv, you may want to occasionally clean this directory.

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acknowledgements

Similar projects:

• PEX
• pyzzer
• superzippy

Logo by Juliette Carvalho