py2exe problem

Thomas Heller theller at python.net
Tue Dec 3 12:03:37 EST 2002


anandpillai6 at yahoo.com (Anand) writes:

> Hi 
> 
>  I get this strange error when I am trying to create an exe using py2exe.
> 
> F:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\wxPython\samples>python setup.py py2exe
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 4, in ?
>     import py2exe
>   File "F:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\py2exe\py2exe.py", line 3, in ?
>     raise RuntimeError, "something's wrong"
> RuntimeError: something's wrong
> 
> 
> Py2exe used to work for me before! I have py2exe.py in my PYTHONPATH
> also.
Exactly this may be the reason! py2exe is a package, nothing special
is needed with PYTHONPATH.
Usually PYTHONPATH contains something like "f:\Python22\Lib\site-packages",
but NOT the directory where py2exe.py is installed.

What is your PYTHONPATH?

Thomas



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