pyinstall and matplotlib

[John Henry]

On Feb 17, 11:50 am, Stef Mientki <stef.mien... at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi John,
>
> John Henry wrote:
> > Anybody willing to help?
>
> I struggled the past few days with the same problem,
> and with the help of Werner Bruhin (wxPython list) I found a solution.
> I had 2 problems:
>   - not finding mpl datapath
>   - matplotlib insisted on installing backends that were distorted on my
> system
>
> The first problem was solved with the following script:
> it has some special parts
> - remove the distro and build directories before running setup
> - a special matplot part, ensuring mpl-data is copied and installed
> - a lot of excludes for matplotlib ( which doesn't seem to work :-( )
>
> Kill_Distro = True
> MatPlotLib_Wanted = True
>
> from distutils.core import setup
> import py2exe
> import sys
> subdirs = [ '..\\P24_support', '..\\P24_pictures',
> '..\\P24_Lib_Extensions' ]
> for subdir in subdirs:
>   if not ( subdir in sys.path) : sys.path.append ( subdir )
>
> from file_support import *
>
> import shutil
> import glob
>
> # ***********************************************************************
> # Some suggests that old build/dist should be cleared
> # ***********************************************************************
> dist_paths =  [ 'D:\\Data_Python\\P24_PyLab_Works\\build',
>                 'D:\\Data_Python\\P24_PyLab_Works\\dist' ]
> for path in dist_paths :
>   if File_Exists ( path ) :
>     shutil.rmtree ( path )
> # ***********************************************************************
>
> # ***********************************************************************
> # ***********************************************************************
> data_files = []
> packages = []
> includes = []
> excludes = []
> dll_excludes = []
> data_files.append ( ( '', glob.glob ( 'templates_*.*' ) ) )
>
> # ***********************************************************************
> # For MatPlotLib
> # ***********************************************************************
> if MatPlotLib_Wanted :
>   import matplotlib
>
>   includes.append ( 'matplotlib.numerix.random_array' )
>
>   packages.append ( 'matplotlib' )
>   packages.append ( 'pytz' )
>
>   data_files.append ( ( r'mpl-data', glob.glob (
>     r'P:\\Python\\Lib\\site-packages\\matplotlib\\mpl-data\\*.*' )))
>   data_files.append ( ( r'mpl-data', glob.glob (
>
> r'P:\\Python\\Lib\\site-packages\\matplotlib\\mpl-data\\matplotlibrc' )))
>   data_files.append ( ( r'mpl-data\\images', glob.glob (
>     r'P:\\Python\\Lib\\site-packages\\matplotlib\\mpl-data\\images\\*.*' )))
>   data_files.append ( ( r'mpl-data\\fonts\\afm', glob.glob (
>
> r'P:\\Python\\Lib\\site-packages\\matplotlib\\mpl-data\\fonts\\afm\\*.*' )))
>   data_files.append ( ( r'mpl-data\\fonts\\pdfcorefonts', glob.glob (
>
> r'P:\\Python\\Lib\\site-packages\\matplotlib\\mpl-data\\fonts\\pdfcorefonts\\*.*'
> )))
>   data_files.append ( ( r'mpl-data\\fonts\\ttf', glob.glob (
>
> r'P:\\Python\\Lib\\site-packages\\matplotlib\\mpl-data\\fonts\\ttf\\*.*' )))
>
>   excludes.append ( '_gtkagg')
>   excludes.append ( '_tkagg' )
>   excludes.append ( '_agg2'  )
>   excludes.append ( '_cairo' )
>   excludes.append ( '_cocoaagg' )
>   excludes.append ( '_fltkagg' )
>   excludes.append ( '_gtk' )
>   excludes.append ( '_gtkcairo')
>   excludes.append ( 'backend_qt' )
>   excludes.append ( 'backend_qt4')
>   excludes.append ( 'backend_qt4agg' )
>   excludes.append ( 'backend_qtagg' )
>   excludes.append ( 'backend_cairo' )
>   excludes.append ( 'backend_cocoaagg' )
>   excludes.append ( 'Tkconstants' )
>   excludes.append ( 'Tkinter' )
>   excludes.append ( 'tcl' )
>   excludes.append ( "_imagingtk" )
>   excludes.append ( "PIL._imagingtk" )
>   excludes.append ( "ImageTk" )
>   excludes.append ( "PIL.ImageTk" )
>   excludes.append ( "FixTk" )
>
>   dll_excludes.append ( 'libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll' )
>   dll_excludes.append ( 'libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll' )
>   dll_excludes.append ( 'libgobject-2.0-0.dll')
>   dll_excludes.append ( 'tcl84.dll' )
>   dll_excludes.append ( 'tk84.dll' )
>   dll_excludes.append ( 'tclpip84.dll' )
> # ***********************************************************************
>
> # seems not to be found (imported in brick.py)
> includes.append ( 'PyLab_Works_properties' )
>
> # ***********************************************************************
> # ***********************************************************************
>
> # If run without args, build executables, in quiet mode.
> if len(sys.argv) == 1:
>     sys.argv.append("py2exe")
>
> setup (
>   windows = ['PyLab_Works.py']  ,
>   options = {
>    'py2exe' : {
>       'includes'     : includes,
>       'excludes'     : excludes,
>       'dll_excludes' : dll_excludes,
>       'packages'     : packages,
>                }},
>   data_files = data_files
>       )
>
> import subprocess
> result = subprocess.call (
>   [ 'P:\Program Files\Inno Setup 4\ISCC.exe',
>     'D:\Data_Python\P24_PyLab_Works\PyLab_Works.iss'])
>
> if (result==0) and Kill_Distro :
>   for path in dist_paths :
>     if File_Exists ( path ) :
>       shutil.rmtree ( path )
>
> Thé essential issue is not to use pylab to do the imports for you,
> but perform your own imports,
> this might be a lot of work: in my case the import looks like this
> (I don't include numerix, because I use numpy),
> so in my program to distribute, I use this :
>
> import matplotlib
> matplotlib.use('WXAgg')
> from matplotlib.backends.backend_wxagg \
>   import Toolbar,  FigureManager
> from matplotlib.backends.backend_wxagg \
>   import FigureCanvasWxAgg as FigureCanvas
> from matplotlib        import rcParams, mlab, cm
> from matplotlib.mlab   import meshgrid
> from matplotlib.figure import Figure
> from matplotlib.axes   import Subplot
>
> hope this might help you somewhat,
> cheers,
> Stef

Steve,

Thanks for your help.

Using your code as a starter, I've gone a lot further.  I have now
gone pass the point where matplotlib was unable to find its
datafiles.  However, the program now stops because it can't get
Tkinter started.  The error message in the log says:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "multicolor.py", line 11, in ?
  File "pylab.pyc", line 1, in ?
  File "matplotlib\pylab.pyc", line 222, in ?
  File "matplotlib\backends\__init__.pyc", line 24, in pylab_setup
  File "matplotlib\backends\backend_tkagg.pyc", line 7, in ?
ImportError: No module named Tkinter

Any ideas?

Thanks,