I have a wxpython application that depends on lxml and works well when running it through the python interpreter. However, when creating an exe with py2exe, I got this error
ImportError: No module named _elementpath
I then used python setup.py py2exe -p lxml
and I did not get the above error but
another one saying
ImportError: No module named gzip
Could anyone let me know what the problem is and how I can fix it. Also should I put any dll files like libxml2, libxslt etc in my dist folder? I searched the computer and did not find these files, so maybe they aren't needed?
Thanks.
Edit: I just tried with python setup.py py2exe -p -i gzip
and the exe was created. But the exe generated does not run. I double click it and it doesn't do anything.
Here's the setup.py script i'm using
from py2exe.build_exe import py2exe
from distutils.core import setup
setup( windows=[{"script": "gui.py"}] )
Edit2: I tried using cx_freeze as an alternative , but got the same
ImportError: No module named _elementpath
error. Didn't know how to proceed after that.
Py2exe allows you to specify additional packages/modules to include with the options
argument to setup()
, in case they are not automatically detected. The following should work:
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(
windows=[{'script': 'gui.py'}],
options={
'py2exe':
{
'includes': ['lxml.etree', 'lxml._elementpath', 'gzip'],
}
}
)
I've also recently discovered PyInstaller, which has built-in support for a number of well-known packages, including lxml, so that might be worth a try as well.