[python-win32] Bit of a strange one using py2exe

[Tim Golden]

On 23/05/2011 09:09, Jacob Kruger wrote:
> Not 100% sure if this is for real, but almost seemed like when I
> tried out making use of py2exe to build an executable from a python
> script of mine, it didn't accept the use of a string value of exit in
> single quotes after it had built the executable, as in, something
> like the following, that would work fine in the normal interpreter
> rendition, now told me something along the lines of 'exit' is not
> defined:

Usual recommendation: provide the exact traceback (cut-and-pasted
if at all possible) rather than "something along the lines of...".

My guess is that you used backtick quotes (`) rather than
single quotes. Backticks are a little-used alternative to
the repr () function -- deprecated in Python 3 ISTR. That
would leave the interpreter calling the __repr__ method
of the exit object. The interactive interpreter has an exit
object:

<dump>

ActivePython 2.7.1.4 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Feb  7 2011, 11:30:38) [MSC v.1500 32 bit 
(Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> exit
Use exit() or Ctrl-Z plus Return to exit
 >>>

</dump>

... which probably comes from site.py (I can't be bothered to check
right now) which isn't imported if Python isn't running interactively.
Such as, within a py2exe bundle.

> Also, going to look through any sort of documentation can find, but,
> off-hand, does py2exe need you to in fact include all code etc. in
> one file?

Nope. I have multifile py2exe bundles, eg:

<code>

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup (
   console=[
     dict (script="web_portraits_lrwp.py"),
     dict (script="web_contacts_lrwp.py"),
     dict (script="web_uaccess_lrwp.py"),
   ],
   data_files=[
     (".", ["header.html"]),
   ],
   options={
     "py2exe" : {
       "includes" : ["decimal"],
       "packages" : ["email"],
     }
   }
)

</code>

Each of those scripts pulls in quite a few other modules,
all of which py2exe picks up and bundles into its library.zip.


TJG