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.

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.

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.

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 ...