py2exe error: 2.4.2.4: No such file or directory

[Larry Bates]

Thomas,

Right on the mark.  Thanks for the help.

Larry Bates


Thomas Heller wrote:
> Larry Bates <lbates at syscononline.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>I had occasion to look back at a project I did over a year ago
>>and needed to make one small change.  I use py2exe to package
>>it for distribution via Inno Setup.  After making my change
>>I tried to run my setup script that worked fine before and
>>get the following message:
>>
>>F:\SYSCON\WTS\HTMLmenu>python HTMLmenuSetup.py py2exe -w
>>running py2exe
>>running build
>>running build_scripts
>>not copying HTMLmenu.py (up-to-date)
>>running install_scripts
>>not copying build\scripts-2.2\HTMLmenu.py (output up-to-date)
>>+----------------------------------------------------
>>| Processing script HTMLmenu.py with py2exe-0.3.3
>>+----------------------------------------------------
>>Searching modules needed to run 'HTMLmenu.py' on path:
>>['F:\\SYSCON\\WTS\\HTMLmenu\\build\\bdist.win32\\winexe\\lib\\Python22\\Lib\\sit
>>e-packages', '', 'F:\\Larry\\Python', 'C:\\Python22\\Lib\\site-packages\\Pythonw
>>in', 'C:\\Python22\\Lib\\site-packages\\win32', 'C:\\Python22\\Lib\\site-package
>>s\\win32\\lib', 'C:\\Python22\\Lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\Python22\\DLLs', 'C:\\P
>>ython22\\lib', 'C:\\Python22\\lib\\lib-tk', 'C:\\Python22', 'C:\\Python22\\lib\\
>>site-packages\\HTMLgen', 'F:\\Larry\\Python\\Library', 'C:\\Python22\\lib\\site-
>>packages\\PIL', 'C:\\Python22\\lib\\site-packages\\dynwin', 'C:\\Python22\\lib\\
>>site-packages\\npstruct', 'C:\\Python22\\lib\\site-packages\\wxPython']
>>error: 2.4.2.4: No such file or directory
>>
>>The only thing that I can think of is that perhaps I've upgraded my
>>wxWindows version.  I checked and 2.4.2.4 is the version, but I don't
>>know why py2exe is looking for such a directory.
> 
> 
> Old versions of wxWindows put an entry in the registry under the
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\2.x\Modules key.  This
> registry entry is (was) used to extend the Python path, but wxWindows
> used it to register it's version number.  You should try to remove this
> entry and run py2exe again.
> 
> Thomas