py2exe compression not working with Python 2.5

[Thomas Heller]

nikie schrieb:
> When I try to compress the output of py2exe like this:
> 
>   from distutils.core import setup
>   import py2exe
> 
>   setup(console=['hello.py'], options={"py2exe": {"compressed": 1}})
> 
> I get strange error messages:
> 
> Adding zlib.pyd to C:\tests\CanControllerTest\New Folder
> (2)\dist\library.zip
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "setup.py", line 4, in <module>
>     setup(console=['hello.py'], options={"py2exe": {"compressed": 1}})
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup
>     dist.run_commands()
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_commands
>     self.run_command(cmd)
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
>     cmd_obj.run()
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py", line 218,
> in run
>     self._run()
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py", line 285,
> in _run
>     self.create_binaries(py_files, extensions, dlls)
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py", line 591,
> in create_
> binaries
>     bytes = zlib_file.read()
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'read'
> 
> This is a standard Python 2.5 installation. Doing the same thing with
> 2.4 works like a charm.
> 
> Did I miss anything?
> 
Patches for this have been posted to the py2exe-users list.

Thomas