Py2Exe and Easgui

Question

I am trying to convert a py file to an exe. Here is the code for my setupfile

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(console=["mycode.py"])

When I use cmd, it says: Import Error: No module named easygui

How do I let py2exe know about the easygui? As well as the numpy and mathplotlib (all are used in mycode.py)

Answer 1

First, use pyinstaller. It is newer and better (though I have used py2exe until switching to pyinstaller) And it seems to have much better recipes for finding your included libs.

But for py2exe, you will need to expand that setup.py a bit more to tell it what to include (since they are probably hidden imports)

setup(
    console=["mycode.py"],
    options={
        "py2exe": {
            "includes": ["easygui"],
            "bundle_files": 1
        },
    },
    zipfile = None,
)

If this fails to build, then easygui is not in your PYTHONPATH properly. Make sure you are not doing something special in your script to add a pythonpath, which would not be visible to py2exe.

You may need to do a little more work with this file for numpy and matplotlib. See this wiki for help

Answer 2

Relative to the issue of the specific dll's mentioned, I had similar issues but fixed those problems by specifically excluding those in the setup lie so:

setup(
    console=['DET14.py'],
    options={
             'py2exe': {
                        'packages' : ['matplotlib', 'pytz'],
                        'dll_excludes':['MSVCP90.DLL',
                                        'libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll',
                                        'libgobject-2.0-0.dll',
                                        'libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll'],
                        'includes':['scipy.sparse.csgraph._validation',
                            'scipy.special._ufuncs_cxx']
                       }
            },
    data_files=matplotlib.get_py2exe_datafiles()
)`

I would say try adding that exclude to your setup statement.