Share Python script that uses Eikon Data API between traders/users

henrik.karlsson

We have created a script that retrieves a group of bonds and does some specific calculations on them. Do you have advice/suggestions regarding how to share this script between our Eikon users? (internal to the company only)

What we tried as a first step was converting the script to an .exe file using a utility called cx_freeze - https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ . However, we weren't able to get this approach to work, as it seems to not include all necessary dependencies.

We are quite open regarding which solutions to consider, so if you have suggestions that are quite different to the cx_freeze approach, that is not necessarily an issue.

Gurpreet

Hi @henrik.karlsson,

Unfortunately, your question is not regarding Eikon API, but the packaging and use of python in general. Refinitiv does not have any solution for efficient distribution of python scripts. I would recommend that you ask this question in the general programming section of stack overflow.

Here is one such example of how to package and distribute using virtual environment - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5535979/distributing-python-code-with-virtualenv