"Bad file descriptor" after py2exe or Installer

[Thomas Heller]

[posted and mailed]

Luc Saffre <luc.saffre at gmx.net> writes:

> On 12.12.2003 15:41, Thomas Heller wrote:
>
>> py2exe seems to pick up cygwin binaries.  The reason could be that
>> either you have cygwin extensions somewhere in your pythonpath, or parts
>> of the PATH env variable points into the cygwin directories, or
>> something like that.  You should look at the output above carefully, and
>> make sure that it is what one would expect.
>
> That's it! Thank you, Thomas, your hint helped.
>
> I had the Cygwin tcltk package installed. After removing this package
> (using cygwin's setup.exe), I can use again the original PIL/Image.py
> and everything works fine.
>
> My PATH contains the cygwin bin directories:
> PATH=u:\CYGWIN\BIN;
> c:\python23\Scripts;c:\python23;
> ...
> u:\CYGWIN\USR\BIN;u:\CYGWIN\USR\LOCAL\BIN;...
>
> Another workaround is to remove the cygwin directories from PATH:
> I reinstalled the cygwin tcltk and the problem reappeared,
> moving the first cygwin directory to come after the python directory
> did not help. Then I removed those directories completely from PATH
> (during the build) and the problem disappeared again.
>
> I would consider this as a bug (in both py2exe and Installer) since
> they decide to pick some cygwin tcl/tk dll's who happen to hang around
> while the Python runtime won't...

This is part of the code (in build_exe.py).

    def find_dependend_dlls(self, use_runw, dlls, pypath, dll_excludes):
        import py2exe_util
        sysdir = py2exe_util.get_sysdir()
        windir = py2exe_util.get_windir()
        # This is the tail of the path windows uses when looking for dlls
        # XXX On Windows NT, the SYSTEM directory is also searched
        exedir = os.path.dirname(sys.executable)
        syspath = os.environ['PATH']
        loadpath = ';'.join([exedir, sysdir, windir, syspath])

        # Found by Duncan Booth:
        # It may be possible that bin_depends needs extension modules,
        # so the loadpath must be extended by our python path.
        loadpath = loadpath + ';' + ';'.join(pypath)

Can you try to change the last line into

        loadpath = ';'.join(pypath) + ';' + loadpath

and report if this helps?

Thanks,

Thomas