Excluding specific module from import

[Tom Harris]

> Anthony Tuininga [mailto:anthony at computronix.com]

>You might want to mention what method you are using for building an
>executable as there are several methods available! Each has a slightly
>different method for eliminating modules from the final executable.Sure, I
am using py2exe.

Sure, its py2exe.

On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 18:31, Tom Harris wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> I have a library that tries to import mx.DateTime, and on failure uses its
> own implementation. The problem is that I am building an executable, and I
> would much rather not have mx imported, as it increases the size of the
> executable by a factor of two. Could someone give me an idea how to frob
> things so that import will fail to import mx.*. I cannot frob sys.path as
it
> only contains a path to site-packages. I would sooner not rewrite the
> library.
> Thanks
> 
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