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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I’ve recently upgraded to python 2.6 and I’m having trouble
building an executable using the new Pytz package. The relevant section of setup.py
is below. This was working under python 2.5 using an ancient version of pytz
(2006p).</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>setup(</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> console = [dict(script = my_script.py')],</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> options = dict(</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> py2exe = dict(</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> packages
= ['pytz', 'pyodbc', 'decimal', 'sqlalchemy'],</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> typelibs=[('{00020813-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}',
0, 1, 4)],</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> )))</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>When I try to run the resulting executable, I get:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>pytz.UnknownTimeZoneError: 'US/Central'</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I noticed that the old version of pytz I was using compiled each timezone
into a .pyc, and these would be included in the resulting library.zip for my
programs. When I build against the new pytz, these files are no longer getting
compiled to .pyc. Instead, when I check the pytz directory in library.zip, I
see these files:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>__init__.pyc</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>reference.pyc</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>tzfile.pyc</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>tzinfo.pyc</span></font></p>
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12.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>It appears that the zoneinfo directory is missing. I have tried pasting
this in manually with no luck. Any ideas?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Jeff Peck</span></font></p>
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