Problem with McMillan Installer: no codec search function registered

[Pierre Rouleau]

Pierre Rouleau wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> When building a exe for a Python application under Windows XP with The 
> McMillan installer, the insttaltion succeeds but when I run the 
> resulting executable the application tracebacks complaining about a 
> codec not being registered:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 222, in ?
>   File "ivcm\buildivcm\out1.pyz/gettext", line 428, in install
>   File "ivcm\buildivcm\out1.pyz/gettext", line 416, in translation
>   File "ivcm\buildivcm\out1.pyz/gettext", line 176, in __init__
>   File "ivcm\buildivcm\out1.pyz/gettext", line 304, in _parse
> LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding
> 
> This application runs fine when executing from python.exe.  It generates 
> the following error when I run the executable built with the McMillan 
> Installer.
> 
> I have found a solution for the problem if I was using py2exe (which 
> I'll probably try soon) in 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-March/155106.html.
> 
> 
> My app uses in some of the .py files
> 
> # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
> 
> What is strange is that I can build the application inside another 
> computer running XP and the same version of the McMillan installer) and 
> the problem does not show up.
> 
> I would try to get help from Gordon McMillan's site but it has been down 
> for several weeks, so if someone encountered the same problem, and 
> solved it, I'd really like to hear if you ran into the same problem.
> 
> My setup:
>     Python 2.3.3
>     McMillan Installer 5b5
> 
> My App:
>     Uses wxPython 2.4.2.4
> 

I found the solution to the problem.  There is a bug in McMillan 
Installer 5b5: it does not handle the codec properly for Unicode. To 
solve the problem, the Installer/support/useUnicode.py file must be updated:

Replace:

	import codecs
with:
	import encodings


Hope this can help anyone that runs into the same problem.

Pierre