py2exe and tricky imports

[Thomas Heller]

"Chris Prinos" <cprinos at foliage.com> wrote in message news:rJCE8.5700$Bn5.2177823 at typhoon.ne.ipsvc.net...
> I have a set of python applications running under the ActiveState Python 2.1
> distribution in a win32 environment and am trying to use py2exe to create a
> standalone executable.
>
> For the simple cases, I can get it to work, but I am running into problems
> with certain dependant modules not being found. In particular, it fails to
> find varius modules from the xml package (PyXML is installed), mxDateTime
> and mxODBC. I've seen some previous posts that say this is due to the way
> these packages manipulate the default import mechanisms, but none of the
> comments or suggested solutions seemed to help.
>
I cannot say anything about the mx stuff, but unfortunately
py2exe doesn't yet support PyXML currectly. Can you live
with the standard xml stuff distributed with Python?

Thomas