So I have made this simple Password Manager in Python 3.8 using PyQt5, and I have been using the 'py2app' module to create a standalone application of this program. However, when I execute my app (both from the terminal and the finder), I get a simple popup saying "keysafe Error". My code is executing just fine and has no errors. I can't seem to figure out the problem here. If it helps, I get this message in my macOS logs:
Mar 16 10:29:01 my-MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: Coalition Cache Hit: app<application.org.pythonmac.unspecified.keysafe.5854321.5857989(501)> [78372]
Mar 16 10:29:01 my-MacBook-Air keysafe[16934]: keysafe Error
Mar 16 10:29:02 my-MacBook-Air com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (application.org.pythonmac.unspecified.keysafe.5854321.5857989[16934]): Service exited with abnormal code: 255
I have also been using the following terminal commands to generate my standalone application using py2app:
cd <path_to_my_python_script>
py2applet --make-setup keysafe.py
python3 setup.py py2app
I really can't figure out what to do, and all help is appreciated! Thanks in advance!
Update:
If you go to your application and right-click it in the finder, it will give you a menu option. Then, click Show Package Contents
. After that, navigate to the Contents > MacOS
and you will see a Unix Executable File
of your python script. Run the file, and you can locate what your error is.
After trying this out, I got an error with problems about the function I had named exit
in my password manager. I thought that the keyword exit
might conflict with some sort of MacOS Setting, and changed the function name to exit_
. After creating another Standalone Application with my updated script, I ran the Unix executable again and got a new error (so the exit
keyword was fixed). My new error is:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "{path}/Password Manager/dist/keysafe.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py", line 110, in <module>
_run()
File "{path}/keysafe.app/Contents/Resources/__boot__.py", line 84, in _run
exec(compile(source, path, "exec"), globals(), globals())
File "{path}/Password Manager/dist/keysafe.app/Contents/Resources/keysafe.py", line 1, in <module>
from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module
File "cryptography/fernet.pyc", line 16, in <module>
File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module
File "cryptography/hazmat/primitives/padding.pyc", line 11, in <module>
File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module
File "cryptography/hazmat/bindings/_padding.pyc", line 14, in <module>
File "cryptography/hazmat/bindings/_padding.pyc", line 10, in __load
File "imp.pyc", line 342, in load_dynamic
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_cffi_backend'
2021-04-04 10:30:46.115 keysafe[27312:1337934] keysafe Error
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So I finally was able to find an answer to this question!
The first thing to do is open your setup.py
file, the default one should look like so:
"""
This is a setup.py script generated by py2applet
Usage:
python setup.py py2app
"""
from setuptools import setup
APP = ['my_program.py']
DATA_FILES = []
OPTIONS = {}
setup(
app=APP,
data_files=DATA_FILES,
options={'py2app': OPTIONS},
setup_requires=['py2app'],
)
Then, change the OPTIONS = {}
to include each one of your imports
OPTIONS = {'includes': ['cryptography.fernet', 'PyQt5.QtWidgets',
'PyQt5.QtGui', 'PyQt5.Qt', 'PyQt5', 'PyQt5.QtCore', '_cffi_backend']}
This manually imports your modules, and this should work if you were getting any similar errors!