pyinstaller fails to create exe-File

[Thomas Heller]

DierkErdmann at mail.com schrieb:
> Hi !
> 
> I am trying to create an exe file using pyinstaller. Running the
> created exe-File gives the error message
> ""
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<string>", line 8, in <module>
>   File "E:\Documents\mich\job\abs\backup_skript\buildbackup\out1.pyz/
> email", lin
> e 79, in __getattr__
>   File "D:\Programme\pyinstaller\iu.py", line 334, in importHook
>     raise ImportError, "No module named %s" % fqname
> ImportError: No module named email.mime.multipart
> ""
> 
> My python-Skript uses the following imports:
> import ConfigParser
> import glob
> import os
> import smtplib
> import time
> import win32api
> import zipfile
> from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
> from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
> from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
> from email.Utils import COMMASPACE, formatdate
> from email import Encoders
> 
> Can someone help? Running
>    python script.py
> works without any problems.

There have been large changes to the email module in Python 2.5,
see the NEWS.txt file.  email's __init__.py module does some import
hacks to ensure compatibility with previous versions, unfortunately
the packagers cannot handle them automatically.  It /may/ be possible
to write a package hook for pyinstaller, I do not know.

For py2exe at least, the best solution currently is to include the whole
email package; this can be done with '-p email' on the command line, or
by passing the corresponding option to the setup function.

> I have also tried to use py2exe, but
>   python setup.py py2exe
> gives the following error message:
> 
> copying d:\programme\python25\lib\site-packages\py2exe\run.exe -> E:
> \Documents\m
> ich\job\abs\backup_skript\dist\backup.exe
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 4, in <module>
>     setup(console=["backup.py"])
>   File "d:\programme\python25\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in
> setup
>     dist.run_commands()
>   File "d:\programme\python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in
> run_commands
>     self.run_command(cmd)
>   File "d:\programme\python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in
> run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "D:\programme\Python25\Lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py",
> line 223,
> in run
>     self._run()
>   File "D:\programme\Python25\Lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py",
> line 290,
> in _run
>     self.create_binaries(py_files, extensions, dlls)
>   File "D:\programme\Python25\Lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py",
> line 548,
> in create_binaries
>     arcname, target.script)
>   File "D:\programme\Python25\Lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py",
> line 788,
> in build_executable
>     add_resource(unicode(exe_path), script_bytes, u"PYTHONSCRIPT", 1,
> True)
> RuntimeError: EndUpdateResource: Das System kann das angegebene Gerõt
> oder die a
> ngegebene Datei nicht ÷ffnen. (=System cannot find the specified
> device or the file)

That's a different problem; it has nothing to do with the email package.
You should try to clean the dist and build directories that py2exe creates,
sometimes this helps.  If it still does not work, you should try to find
out what the error means.  Is the file readonly?  locked because still in use?

Thomas