[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app unable to find cprocessors.so

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 9 Sep, 2012, at 20:34, Paul Wiseman <poalman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> When building an app that is using sqlalchemy I get this error:
> 
> creating python loader for extension 'sqlalchemy.cprocessors'
> error: /Users/paul/Source/Python/build/bdist.macosx-10.6-intel/python2.7-standalone/app/temp/sqlalchemy/cprocessors.py: No such file or directory
> 
> I took a look in site packages and there is no cprocessors.py, but a cprocessors.so - so maybe it is just looking for the wrong extension
> 
> I tried adding "sqlalchemy.cprocessors" to the includes list in py2app but that hasn't helped.
> 
> I was wondering if I can fool it by dropping an empty cprocessors.py so it will build, then swap it out afterwards for the so, but I'm sure there's a better way and I'm not convinced that could even work.
> 
> Surely py2app doesn't assume every extension is .py, or if it does can it be changed?

Py2app does not assume that every extension is a python file. Given the messasge I'd say that the error occurs in the code path that creates a helper python file that actually loads the exention.

A little background information: when py2app creates the application bundle all modules are stored in a zipfile and loaded using python's zipimporter. Extensions cannot be stored in the zipfiles because the zipimporter doesn't support that. Py2app therefore creates a placeholder python module in the zipfile that loads the extensions from a directory in the application bundle. 

BTW. could you please create a sample project that demonstrates the problem? I've tried to reproduce your problem on my machine and failed to do so. I did run into another problem, py2app generated an incomplete bundle due to confusion between a _collections submodule in SQLAlchemy and the _collections extension in the stdlib; that's something I'm currently trying to fix.

Ronald
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