Problem with McMillans Installer

[Eric Brunel]

Mikael Lexén wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have the following code
> 
> fileName="test.txt"
> inputFile=file(fileName,'r')
> b = unicode(inputFile.read(), 'utf-8')
> inputFile.close()
> 
> outputFile=file(fileName,'w')
> 
> print >> outputFile, b.encode('iso-8859-1')
> 
> outputFile.close()
> 
> This code works ok. Then I use the Installer and made a --onefile 
> "binary". The building process is also ok but when I try to execute the 
> program I get the following error
> 
> c:\python\siebel>convert "copy of test.txt"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<string>", line 18, in ?
> LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding
> 
> I change to --onedir build and get the same result. I did some  tests 
> and found that if I put the "encodings" directory (from 
> ".../python22/lib" directory)  in the  "--onedir" directory everything 
> works ok . So my question is how can I tell the Installer to get the 
> "encodings" directory  in the build process?

Expicitely importing the codecs module in the Python program should solve the 
problem.

BTW, McMillan Installer has its own mailing list (see 
http://trixie.triqs.com/mailman/listinfo/installer). You'll usually get quicker 
and/or better answers if you post your questions there rather than on c.l.py.

HTH
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