The following modules appear to be missing ['_sysconfigdata']

[Matthew Lemon]

Hi,

I would start from scratch with this.

1. You have latest Python 2 version.
2. Use virtualenv to create and activate a new virtual environment.
3. pip install wxPython and other dependencies.
4. Get your application running from the command line first and follow up any DLL exceptions.
5. Use pyinstaller (https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) to create a new exe file once you know everything works. 

Matt

On 8 January 2019 10:38:16 GMT, dude.jimbo at gmail.com wrote:
>Hello,
>
>first time using python groups (and long time since using any other
>group for that matter). This might not be the right group due to wx
>being involved.
>
>Long story as short as possible. I have an old python script that I did
>~10 years ago, and have forgotten basically everything about Python
>since then (sorry!). Converted it to EXE way back when, and have kept
>using the EXE ever since then (on XP, and on Win7).
>
>I've just gotten a new PC, Windows10 (!), needed to update the script,
>so needed to recompile the EXE, and now it no longer compiles/works. It
>was fine on Windows7 (I'm not specifically stating that the problem is
>with windows10 - I simply don't remember all the hoops I jumped through
>on my previous machine).
>
>Here is the compile error:
>The following modules appear to be missing
>['_sysconfigdata']
>
>And here is the runtime error:
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "AutoArchive.py", line 3, in <module>
>  File "wx\__init__.pyc", line 45, in <module>
>  File "wx\_core.pyc", line 4, in <module>
>  File "wx\_core_.pyc", line 12, in <module>
>  File "wx\_core_.pyc", line 10, in __load
>ImportError: DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.
>
>Here is how I compile: python setup.py py2exe
>
>And this is my setup.py:
>from distutils.core import setup
>import py2exe
>
>setup(console=['AutoArchive.py'])
>
>Yes, that says 'console' for a Windows EXE, but swapping it to 'window'
>didn't help. Besides which, the setup.py file is straight from the old
>computer, so 'it used to work'.
>
>What I have installed:
>. python 2.7.13 (this in itself may be a problem - I don't even
>remember which version I was using earlier, other than knowing for sure
>it wasn't a 3.x release)
>. wxpython  (since I also got an error that wx module was missing -
>that rang some bells, since the script uses a Windows pop-up window to
>inform me about its progress, and I remember using wx for that, so I
>installed it, but don't know how to get its' version. using "python -c
>"import wx;print wx.__version__" just gives runtime errors).
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>And yes, I googled, but can't really find anything (well, d'Uh!, I
>wouldn’t be here then would I?) - there's ~some~ references, but
>usually it's about similar issues on Linux, with solutions that are not
>applicable at all. Except one I thought: I found some link stating that
>_sysconfigdata is part of sysconfig, and that this needed to be
>installed with pip, so I used the pip that came with my python distro
>and did 'pip install [[_]sys]config[data]' (all possible combo's) but
>pip claims it can't find said module, and TBH, I can't seem to find
>anything myself about said module.
>
>Thx,
>Jimbo
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