Trying to use pyinstaller under python 3.11, and, recently started receiving error message about specific module/distribution

[Barry]

> On 1 Apr 2024, at 15:52, Jacob Kruger via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
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> Found many, many mentions of errors, with some of the same keywords, but, no resolutions that match my exact issue at all.

Try asking the pyinstaller developers. I think there is a mailing list.

Barry
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> As in, most of them are mentioning older versions of python, and, mainly different platforms - mac and linux, but, various google searches have not mentioned much of using it on windows, and having it just stop working.
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> Now did even try shifting over to python 3.12, but, still no-go.
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> If launch pyinstaller under python 3.10 on this exact same machine, pyinstaller runs - just keep that older version hovering around for a couple of occasional tests, partly since some of my target environments are still running older versions of python, but anyway.
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> Also, not really relevant, but, cx_freeze is perfectly able to generate executables for this same code, but, then not combining all output into a single file - will stick to that for now, but, not always as convenient, and, still wondering what changed here.
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> Jacob Kruger
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>> On 2024/03/31 14:51, Barry wrote:
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>>>> On 31 Mar 2024, at 13:24, Jacob Kruger via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
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>>> pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'altgraph' distribution was not found and is required by the application
>> I think I have seen this error being discussed before…
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>> A web search for pyinstaller and that error leads to people discussing why it happens it looks like.
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>> Barry
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