Problem using py2exe

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In article <mailman.1026749609.31000.python-list at python.org>,
 "Harvey Thomas" <hst at empolis.co.uk> wrote:

> I've got a program that works fine, when run using the Python interpreter, 
> but when I convert it to a Windows exe using py2exe, I get the following 
> traceback:
> 
>   File "<string>", line 96, in ?
>   File "<string>", line 77, in main
>   File "apex.pyc", line 219, in apexopen
>   File "codecs.pyc", line 499, in open
> 
> Line 219 of apex.pyc is:
>         return codecs.open(fn, mde, 'utf8')
> 
> I guess I need to force py2exe to read something it can't pick up 
> automatically, but I can't work out what the something is.
> 
> Any help appreciated

Most likely it's the encodings package that's missing. Fixable by doing 
this:

  python setup.py py2exe --packages encodings

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