py2exe error: 2.4.2.4: No such file or directory

[Thomas Heller]

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