Problem with py2exe and installer5b5_5

[Andrew McLean]

In article <bi4j1e$grv$1 at news-reader3.wanadoo.fr>, Eric Brunel 
<eric.brunel at pragmadev.com> writes
>hellprout wrote:
>> hi  ,  i want to use py2exe or installer5b5_5 with my python source 
>>so no problem when i execute the source , but when i use installer or
>> py2exe to create an exe file on windows , i have some problems
>> when my program want to read a xml file i have an error   2.2.3 (#42, 
>>May 30 2003, 18:12:08) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)]
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "wxFrame1.pyc", line 287, in OnButton1Button
>>   File "EIM_xml.pyc", line 135, in main_xml
>>   File "EIM_xml.pyc", line 44, in construction_liste_xml
>>   File "xml\sax\__init__.pyc", line 33, in parse
>>   File "xml\sax\expatreader.pyc", line 86, in parse
>>   File "xml\sax\saxutils.pyc", line 250, in prepare_input_source
>>   File "ntpath.pyc", line 274, in isfile
>> LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding
>
>Apparently, there is some weird code importing the codecs that py2exe 
>or McMillan installer cannot correctly figure out. I had the same 
>problem some time ago, which I solved by simply importing explicitely 
>the codecs module via an:
>
>import codecs
>
>somewhere in the code. This seems to fix up things for McM's installer 
>(never used py2exe).

I had a similar problem with the McMillan installer. This wasn't solved 
by adding:

import codecs

but it was solved by adding

import encodings

-- 
Andrew McLean