py2exe problem

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February 9th, 2004, 11:25 AM

irishtek

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py2exe problem

py2exe (0.50)
python (2.3.3)

running py2exe on a script, no errors thrown and an executable is made.

Executable does not work - it runs but no results occur and no errors are thrown.

February 9th, 2004, 11:56 AM

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irishtek,

A few suggestion in no particular order:
1. Try building the app as a console application and run it from an already open command window. See if anything is printed.
2. Sprinkle a few print statements in the main module to confirm its actually running

Code:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print "Starting..."
    #your code
    print "Stopping"

3. Check the build logs - I use a modified standard script like this

Code:

# setup.py
# Requires py2exe has been installed that matches python version
# Run this program "python release.py py2exe" to create an executable + dlls found in
# c:/python21/dist/gscript.
# see http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/ for details.
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
import glob
import sys

rd="c:\\tester"

f = open(rd+'\\pybuild.log','w')
sys.stdout = f
setup(
    name="GSCRIPT",
    windows=[
                {
                    "script":rd+"\\gscript.pyw",
                    "icon_resources":[(1,rd+"\\g.ico")]
                }
            ],
    data_files=[
                    (
                        ".",['gextension.py','pypdu.py','g.ico','w9xpopen.exe',
                        "GSCRIPT.htm",'script.template',
                        'calldll.pyd','DLPORTIO.dll',
                        'DLPORTIO.sys']
                         +glob.glob("*.gsc")
                    ),
                    (
                        "GSCRIPT_files",glob.glob(rd+"\\GSCRIPT_files\\*.gif")
                        +glob.glob(rd+"\\GSCRIPT_files\\*.jpg")
                        +glob.glob(rd+"\\GSCRIPT_files\\*.png")
                    ),
                    (
                        r"ftp", glob.glob(rd+"\\ftp\\*.*")
                    ),    
                ],
    )
f.close()

to write a log file.
I then use a batch file:

Code:

c:\python23\python py2exe setup.py
notepad pybuild.log

4. Make sure you don't just pass exceptions

Let us know how you get on.
not so Grim

February 9th, 2004, 02:01 PM

irishtek

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it appears to be an issue with the image library.

If compiled and executed from DOS I see the following error:
Starting...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 164, in ?
File "<string>", line 129, in MakeText
File "Image.pyc", line 1571, in open
IOError: cannot identify image file

Works fine as a py script - fails as an exe

February 9th, 2004, 03:56 PM

irishtek

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In order to make PIL and PY2EXE work together all libraries of PIL need to be imported such as:

import Image
import BmpImagePlugin

also the py2exe line needs to be:
python setup.py py2exe -pPIL

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