help removing pyQt dll from dist created with py2exe

[Carlos Grohmann]

Hello all,

i've been trying to build an .exe with py2exe. After many tentatives,
it worked, but the total space used by the app goes to 30Mb. It is a
simple app, that uses wxpython, matplotlib and numpy. I checked the
library.zip file and notived that there is a pyQt-related file there:

Pyqt - QtGui.pyo - 8 Mb

I'm not using Qt at all, so I assume it would be safe to not have this
file, but I don't see how to do it.

my setup.py file follows.

many thanks

Carlos


#----------------------------------------------------------------------
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
from glob import glob

# Remove the build folder, a bit slower but ensures that build
contains the latest
import shutil
shutil.rmtree("build", ignore_errors=True)

# my setup.py is based on one generated with gui2exe, so data_files is
done a bit differently
data_files = [("Microsoft.VC90.CRT", glob(r'c:\dev\*.*'))]

includes = ['wx', 'os', 'sys', 'csv', 're', 'floatspin',
'scrolledpanel', 'customtreectrl',
            'wx.lib.expando', 'wx.lib.pubsub', 'wx.lib.embeddedimage',
'wx.lib.wordwrap', 'types',
            'matplotlib', 'matplotlib.pyplot', 'matplotlib.axes',
'matplotlib.figure',
            'matplotlib.backends.backend_wxagg',
'mpl_toolkits.axes_grid.axislines', 'mpl_toolkits.axes_grid',
            'matplotlib.patches', 'matplotlib.lines',
'matplotlib.text', 'matplotlib.mlab', 'matplotlib.nxutils',
            'matplotlib.collections', 'matplotlib.font_manager',
'numpy', 'numpy.ma', 'numpy.linalg', 'math', 'scipy.interpolate'
            ]

excludes = ['_gtkagg', '_tkagg', 'bsddb', 'curses', 'pywin.debugger',
            'pywin.debugger.dbgcon', 'pywin.dialogs', 'tcl',
            'Tkconstants', 'Tkinter', 'pydoc', 'doctest', 'test',
'sqlite3',
            'bsddb', 'curses', 'email','_fltkagg', '_gtk',
'_gtkcairo',
            '_agg2', '_cairo', '_cocoaagg',
'matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4agg','matplotlib.backends.backend_qt4'
            ]

packages = ['encodings','pytz','scipy']

dll_excludes = ['libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll', 'libgobject-2.0-0.dll',
'tcl84.dll', 'tk84.dll',
                'libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll', 'libgtk-win32-2.0-0.dll',
'libglib-2.0-0.dll',
                'libcairo-2.dll', 'libpango-1.0-0.dll',
'libpangowin32-1.0-0.dll', 'libpangocairo-1.0-0.dll',
                'libglade-2.0-0.dll', 'libgmodule-2.0-0.dll',
'libgthread-2.0-0.dll', 'QtGui4.dll', 'QtCore.dll',
                'QtCore4.dll'
                ]

icon_resources = []
bitmap_resources = []
other_resources = []

# add the mpl mpl-data folder and rc file
import matplotlib as mpl
data_files += mpl.get_py2exe_datafiles()

setup(
    windows=['OpenStereo.py'],
                          # compressed and optimize reduce the size
    options = {"py2exe": {"compressed": 2,
                          "optimize": 2,
                          "includes": includes,
                          "excludes": excludes,
                          "packages": packages,
                          "dll_excludes": dll_excludes,
                          # using 2 to reduce number of files in dist
folder
                          # using 1 is not recommended as it often
does not work
                          "bundle_files": 2,
                          "dist_dir": 'dist',
                          "xref": False,
                          "skip_archive": False,
                          "ascii": False,
                          "custom_boot_script": '',
                         }
              },

    # using zipfile to reduce number of files in dist
    zipfile = r'lib\library.zip',

    data_files=data_files
)