freeze utility and pickle

[Gerhard Häring]

Aki Niimura wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm having a problem "freezing" my program using freeze.py under Solaris.
> My program works fine if I invoke it as a Python script.
> However, it generates a LookupError when I started the "frozen" program.
> [...]
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/pickle.py", line 985, in load_string
>     self.append(rep.decode("string-escape"))
> LookupError: unknown encoding: string-escape

Your frozen executable needs stuff from the 'encodings' package. At 
least encodings.string_escape.

-- Gerhard