Having written a desktop application in Python, you want to make it easy for users to install and run it. Most tools designed for this focus on trying to make an executable for your application, and hide as many files as possible, but this approach is brittle: 'frozen' applications often have problems that the same code doesn't have when run normally. [Pynsist](http://pynsist.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) is a new tool taking a different approach. It creates an installer which first installs the necessary version of Python, then unpacks the application code to regular files and directories, and creates shortcuts to run that application code in Python. Although there is no `myapp.exe`, the result looks and works like a 'real' application. In addition, since NSIS is available on other platforms, the developer can prepare Windows installers from a Linux or Mac computer. Pynsist is an open source project, and it works with recent versions of Python 3, and Python 2.7.