Python - Py2exe can't build .exe using the 'email' module

Question

py2exe does not work with the standard email module

Hello. I am trying to use py2exe for converting a script into an exe. The build process shows this:

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The following modules appear to be missing

['email.Encoders', 'email.Generator', 'email.Iterators', 'email.MIMEBase', 'email.MIMEMultipart', 'email.MIMEText', 'email.Utils', 'email.base64MIME']

The executable does not work. The referenced modules are not included. I researched this on the Internet and I found out that py2exe has a problem with the Lazy import used in the standard lib email module. Unfortunately I have not succeeded in finding a workaround for this problem. Can anyone help?

Thank you,

P.S. Imports in the script look like this:

Code: Select all import string,time,sys,os,smtplib from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase from email.MIMEText import MIMEText from email import Encoders

Answer 1

Have a look at this question how-to-package-twisted-program-with-py2exe it seems to be the same problem.

The answer given there is to explicitly include the modules on the command line to py2exe.