Tkinter vs. py2exe problem

[msunderwd at gmail.com]

On Dec 5, 9:50 am, msunde... at gmail.com wrote:
> Having a problem with "compiling" a Tkinter/python program using
> py2exe (and pyinstaller, for that matter)...
>
> I have several dialogs that are derived from the tkSimpleDialog.Dialog
> class.  These work just fine if run through the interpreter.  When I
> "compile" this with py2exe, I don't see any errors, and when I execute
> the resulting program, it "appears" to work fine until I invoke one of
> the derived dialogs.
>
> Then, I get the "body" of the dialog, but no "OK" or "Cancel" button,
> and I get the following exception:
>
>                AttributeError: MyDialog instance has no attribute
> 'buttonbox'
>
> For reference, MyDialog is declared as follows:
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> from Tkinter import *
> import tkSimpleDialog
> class MyDialog(tkSimpleDialog.Dialog)
>
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And my setup.py file looks like this:
>
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> from distutils.core import setup
> import py2exe
>
> setup(console=['tcgui3.py'])
>
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I'm invoking py2exe like this:
>
> C:\python setup.py py2exe -p Tkinter -p tkSimpleDialog
>
> ??????

Oh yeah... if it matters, I'm using Python 2.5.1 on Win XP, and py2exe
v1.4.  I get the same problem using pyinstaller, except it doesn't
show the exception - it just fails to display the buttons.