pickle and py2exe

[Johan Lindberg]

> Im trying to compile a script with py2exe. The pickle module is causing the
> program to give an error.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "SETIstat.pyw", line 330, in ?
>   File "SETIstat.pyw", line 84, in start_up
>   File "SETIstat.pyw", line 79, in config_load
>   File "pickle.pyc", line 1390, in load
>   File "pickle.pyc", line 872, in load
>   File "pickle.pyc", line 985, in load_string
> LookupError: unknown encoding: string-escape
> 
> the data in the pickled file is a dictionary containing a couple strings. The
> strings do contain \n and \t charaters but no other special characters or
> anything. 
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions to what I can try to get around this? The
> pickle module works fine when the .pyw file is run. Its only when I compile
> this is there an issue. 
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Justin

Have you included string-escape encoding in your setup.py?
My guess is that you can fix the problem with something similar to:

 from distutils.core import setup
 import py2exe
 opts = { "py2exe": { "packages": ["encodings"], } }
 setup(windows= ["spam.py"], options= opts)

in your setup.py.

Hope it helps
/Johan Lindberg