py2exe doesn't create a working .exe file...

[PythonNewbie2]

Hey guys, I posted earlier about py2exe not working in general. Now I got it to actually run, but the .exe produced does not work... Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Info:

I've tried various things to solve this issue, but no luck. When I run my setup.bat file, which looks like this:

python setup.py py2exe --bundle 1

Everything seems to run okay, but the resulting .exe produces a "Windows has encountered an error."

My setup.py looks like this:

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(console=['ReformatterV2.py'])

I've also tried moving my imports from the actual python script to the setup.py, but that didn't help either. I also tried simply running it from the command line without using --bundle 1. Still no luck.

Inside the produced dist directory, there are four files:

tcl (folder) - 7.08 MB
ReformatterV2.exe - 23 KB
library.zip - 6,921 KB
w9xpopen.exe - 49 KB

It seems very strange to me that the produced exe is only 23 KB (my original script was 10KB)... What could I be doing wrong? Any help is appreciated!

[PythonNewbie2]

Here's an update.

I found this URL which told me to modify my setup.py, which I did:
http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/TixSetup

However, the result is the same as above.
Inside my tcl folder, there are two other folders:
tcl8.5
tk8.5

My original code does use Tkinter:

import Tkinter,tkFileDialog, tkMessageBox #For allowing user to browse and save

#Give the user warning to select a file to open.
root = Tkinter.Tk()
root.withdraw()
tkMessageBox.showinfo(
"Attention!",
"Please select the CSV file you want to reformat."
)

# ======== Select a file for opening:
root = Tkinter.Tk()
root.withdraw()
filepathwayToOpen = tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(filetypes=[("CSV files","*.csv")],title='Select the csv file you want to convert.')
if filepathwayToOpen != None:
    print filepathwayToOpen

I did not include a root.mainloop() originally, but after reading it on some forum, I did. However, still no luck with the .exe.... Any help?

[snippsat]

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
import sys

if len(sys.argv) == 1:
    sys.argv.append("py2exe")

setup( options = {"py2exe": {"compressed": 1, "optimize": 2, "ascii": 1, "bundle_files": 3}},
       zipfile = None,
       
       ##data_files = ['apple.jpg', 'cheese.jpg'],
       
       #Can use windows or console,replace my_file.py with py file you want to make exe off.
       #If not run in same folder give path /mydir/my_file.py
       windows = [{"script": 'my_file.py'}])

Or use gui2exe

[PythonNewbie2]

Thanks, but the exe still doesn't work.

Here are the files that are now found in the dist folder (after using your setup.py or my setup.py + code from yours):

tcl (directory) - 7.08 MB
Reformatter.exe - 3625 KB
w9xopen.exe - 49 KB

I tried running GUI2EXE but I get this error:

import wx
ImportError: No module named wx

Any ideas? Do I need to place all of the GUI2Exe files inside my python directory?

[snippsat]

You have to install wxpython to get gui2exe to work.
http://www.wxpython.org/download.php#binaries

My script you run,you alone only change my_file.py to the name off your py file that you want to make exe off.
windows = [{"script": 'my_file.py'}])
Or
console = [{"script": 'my_file.py'}])

[PythonNewbie2]

Thanks for all of your continued help!

I was able to get GUI2Exe up and running and I must say that it is much more inuitive.

However, I'm running into another same issue.

The generated dist folder still has:

tcl (directory) - 7.08 MB
Reformatter.exe - 2256 KB
w9xopen.exe - 49 KB

However, I now have a log file that gets produced when I try to run the .exe. Maybe this will help? I really appreciate your support on this.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<install zipextimporter>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named zipextimporter
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "Reformatter.py", line 7, in <module>
ImportError: No module named csv

These are the import statements I have in my .py file, so I added them to the list in GUI2Exe:

import csv
import itertools #For transposing csv
import Tkinter,tkFileDialog, tkMessageBox #For allowing user to browse and save
import os
import time

Any ideas of what could be the issue? THANKS!

[D33wakar]

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
import sys

if len(sys.argv) == 1:
    sys.argv.append("py2exe")

setup( options = {"py2exe": {"compressed": 1, "optimize": 2, "ascii": 1, "bundle_files": 3}},
       zipfile = None,
       
       ##data_files = ['apple.jpg', 'cheese.jpg'],
       
       #Can use windows or console,replace my_file.py with py file you want to make exe off.
       #If not run in same folder give path /mydir/my_file.py
       windows = [{"script": 'my_file.py'}])

Or use gui2exe

I was searching solution for py2exe problem(the exe file didn't work for my simple gui program using tkinter).then i found ur code.I tried it using python2.7 idle ,reaching bout halfway raised following error:

running py2exe
*** searching for required modules ***
*** parsing results ***
creating python loader for extension '_tkinter' (C:\Python27\DLLs\_tkinter.pyd -> _tkinter.pyd)
creating python loader for extension '_ctypes' (C:\Python27\DLLs\_ctypes.pyd -> _ctypes.pyd)
creating python loader for extension 'select' (C:\Python27\DLLs\select.pyd -> select.pyd)
creating python loader for extension 'bz2' (C:\Python27\DLLs\bz2.pyd -> bz2.pyd)
*** finding dlls needed ***
*** create binaries ***
*** byte compile python files ***
writing byte-compilation script 'c:\docume~1\deewakar\locals~1\temp\tmpwd7pdi.py'
C:\Python27\pythonw.exe -OO c:\docume~1\deewakar\locals~1\temp\tmpwd7pdi.py

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\setup.py", line 14, in <module>
    windows = [{"script": 'ask.py'}])
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 169, in setup
    raise SystemExit, "error: " + str(msg)
SystemExit: error: command 'C:\Python27\pythonw.exe' failed with exit status 1

any suggestions on that!

[Beat_Slayer]

Insert the full path to the script instead of just the 'ask.py'.

Cheers and Happy coding

[Beat_Slayer]

Insert the full path to the script instead of just the 'ask.py'.

Cheers and Happy coding

[D33wakar]

Insert the full path to the script instead of just the 'ask.py'.

Cheers and Happy coding

i really appreciated ur reply but still didn't work for me ,though displayed some more lines of processing.... still stuck with

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\setup.py", line 14, in <module>
    windows = [{"script": "C:\\Python27\\ask.py"}])
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 169, in setup
    raise SystemExit, "error: " + str(msg)
SystemExit: error: command 'C:\Python27\pythonw.exe' failed with exit status 1

my program script is:

'C:/Python 27/python.exe'
from Tkinter import *
import tkCommonDialog
import Dialog
import tkMessageBox,tkFileDialog
import zipfile

var=bool

class Application(Frame):
    def __init__(self,master=None):
        Frame.__init__(self,master)
        self.grid()
        
        
        self.createWidgets()
        
        
    def confirm(self):
        class my_msg(Frame):
            def __init__(self,master=Application):
                Frame.__init__(self,master)
                
                self.pack(expand=False)
                self.createmsg()
            def createmsg(self):
                self.mssg=Label(self,text="Do you really want to exit?")
                self.mssg.grid(column=2,row=4)
                self.yesbutton=Button(self,text='Yes',relief='raised',command=self.kill)
                self.yesbutton.grid(column=2,row=6,sticky=S+E)
                self.nobutton=Button(self,text='No',relief='raised',command=root.destroy)
                self.nobutton.grid(column=3,row=6,sticky=N+W)
                
            def kill(self):
                root.destroy()
                app.master.destroy()
        root=Tk()
        msg1=my_msg(master=root)
        msg1.master.resizable(False,False)
        msg1.mainloop() 
        

    def createWidgets(self):
        
        self.quitButton = Button (self,text = 'Quit',activeforeground = 'red',
                                  relief = 'raised' )
        if var==True:
            self.quitButton["command"]=msg1.destroy()
        else:
            self.quitButton["command"]=self.confirm
        self.quitButton.grid()
        self._openf =Button(self,text ='extract file',relief = 'groove',command=self.openf)
        self._openf.grid()
       
    def openf(self):
        e=tkFileDialog.askopenfilename(title='extract file',defaultextension="zip,(.zip)",filetypes=[("ZIP COMPRESSED FILES",".zip")])
        
        
        f=zipfile.ZipFile(e)
        j=tkFileDialog.asksaveasfile(title='extract to:')
        f.extractall(j)
        
      
        
       
       
        
root = Tk()
app=Application(master=root)
app.master.title("The Zip EXtractor")
app.mainloop()

i just wanted to make my program executable on windows without python installed in it.

[snippsat]

Working for me with gui2exe,just remove tk from excludes.
Tkinter is is set to be excludes in gui2exe,because most off use wxpython or other gui toolkit.
For cx_freeze look at this post.
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread20774-25.html

Here is the exe i got out.
http://www.esnips.com/doc/8db198e1-5442-48b7-a810-79e7adbfa773/zip_e

[Beat_Slayer]

Can you post your full setup file?

Cheers and Happy coding.

[D33wakar]

here is my setup file

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
import sys
if len(sys.argv) == 1:
    sys.argv.append("py2exe")

setup( options = {"py2exe": {"compressed":1, "optimize": 2, "ascii":1,"includes": ["Tkinter"], "bundle_files": 3}},
       zipfile = None,
       
       
       windows = [{"script": "C:\\Python27\\ask.py"}])