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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 467

Python executable importerror

I have a gui that I created with wx and a bunch of other libraries like matlabplot, win32api etc...

I have compiled the python code into an executable using py2exe.

The executable gets created but when I try to run it, it produces an error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "gui.py", line 30, in <module>
  File "zipextimporter.pyc", line 82, in load_module
  File "guiupdater.pyc", line 22, in <module>
  File "zipextimporter.pyc", line 82, in load_module
  File "paramiko\__init__.pyc", line 30, in <module>
  File "zipextimporter.pyc", line 82, in load_module
  File "paramiko\transport.pyc", line 32, in <module>
  File "zipextimporter.pyc", line 82, in load_module
  File "cryptography\hazmat\backends\__init__.pyc", line 7, in <module>
  File "zipextimporter.pyc", line 82, in load_module
  File "pkg_resources\__init__.pyc", line 70, in <module>
  File "pkg_resources\extern\__init__.pyc", line 61, in load_module
ImportError: The 'appdirs' package is required; normally this is bundled with this package so if you get this warning, consult the packager of your distribution.

I had previously compiled the executable and had it running in a different environment. I'm on a new environment now, but I have all the same dependencies installed etc...

I did some quick research and lots of people say reverting their setuptools to 19.2 version fixed it for them but I am relunctent to do that because my setuptools is at version 28.2. I feel like it would do more harm than good...

Does anyone know how to fix this error?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1307

Answers (2)

user2682863
user2682863

Reputation: 3217

It's an issue introduced with newer versions of setuptools. Either:

add 'pkg_resources' to setuptools.setup packages option

or

Downgrade to version 19.2

pip install setuptools==19.2

Upvotes: 0

Dawryn
Dawryn

Reputation: 11

I had the same problem and as I did not want to go far back with versions I had to do some research...

Problem is that while processing pkg_resources.extern all necessary modules from (private?) default package pkg_resources._vendor are not found (delayed load).

Compare contents of pkg_resources._vendor at source (site-packages) and inside library.zip that is generated with executable. Whatever is missing in zip can be included by options for py2exe.

options={"py2exe": {"includes": ["pkg_resources._vendor.appdirs",...], ...

Upvotes: 1

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