Let’s create a simple app that gets autocomplete queries for a seed keyword from the Google public API. Before beginning, create a folder on your machine, and name it what you want.

What we’ll create is a simple command-line application to store software licences. I’ll be demonstrating on Pop!_OS Linux, but this will work on any platform that supports Python.

You can create and render Quarto files with any plain text editor and your terminal, just as you can with R or Python scripts, since they are plain text and not binary files. However, you’d miss ...

The most popular solution, and the most mature, is PyInstaller. PyInstaller doesn’t make the process of packaging a Python application totally painless, but it goes a long way.