I have a Python app based on Twisted and PyGTK. Twisted itself depends on zope.interface, and I don't import it directly.
Unfortunately, when I try to run my app, the following error ends up in the error log:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tasks.py", line 4, in <module>
File "ui\__init__.pyc", line 14, in <module>
File "twisted\python\log.pyc", line 17, in <module>
ImportError: No module named zope.interface
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tasks.py", line 4, in <module>
File "ui\__init__.pyc", line 14, in <module>
File "twisted\python\log.pyc", line 17, in <module>
ImportError: No module named zope.interface
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tasks.py", line 4, in <module>
File "ui\__init__.pyc", line 14, in <module>
File "twisted\python\log.pyc", line 17, in <module>
ImportError: No module named zope.interface
I've tried adding every combination of zope.interface and zope to INCLUDES and PACKAGES, but doing so only gives me this build time error:
running py2exe
*** searching for required modules ***
C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py:16: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
import sets
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 75, in <module>
'gtk/*.ui'
File "C:\Python26\lib\distutils\core.py", line 152, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "C:\Python26\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 975, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "C:\Python26\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 995, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py", line 243, in run
self._run()
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py", line 296, in _run
self.find_needed_modules(mf, required_files, required_modules)
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\py2exe\build_exe.py", line 1306, in find_needed_modules
mf.import_hook(f)
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 719, in import_hook
return Base.import_hook(self,name,caller,fromlist,level)
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 136, in import_hook
q, tail = self.find_head_package(parent, name)
File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 204, in find_head_package
raise ImportError, "No module named " + qname
ImportError: No module named zope
My setup.py is:
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
def find_data_files(source,target,patterns):
# I've elided this, I doubt it's relevant to the problem
# ...
INCLUDES = [
'cairo',
'pango',
'pangocairo',
'atk',
'gobject',
'gio',
]
PACKAGES = [
'encodings',
]
setup(
name = 'MyApp',
description = 'My Application',
version = '1.0',
windows = [
{
'script': os.path.join('ui','tasks.py'),
'icon_resources': [
(1, os.path.join(
'ui','data','iconpack.ico'))
],
}
],
options = {
'py2exe': {
'packages': ','.join(PACKAGES),
'includes': ','.join(INCLUDES),
}
},
data_files = find_data_files(
'ui', 'ui', [
'data/*',
'gtk/*.ui'
])
)
How do I get py2exe to build this?
I've had this same problem with zope.interface and friends (zope.component, et al). Specifically it is a problem with how py2exe searches and discovers packages AND how the zope packages are installed.
zope is a namespace package and as a result relies on some funky import logic in it's .pth files (see zope.interface-3.*.*-py2.*-nspkg.pth) in order to add it's sub-packages to python's path. Have a look at it in site-packages and you'll see what I mean.
py2exe has problems "discovering" this kind of package.
In the end what I did was manually repackage the various zope packages I was using into a stardard module setup in site-packages and then reran py2exe - which then discovered everything no problem. It's a PITA, but until py2exe is able to handle packaging edge cases and/or the zope packages are packaged in a py2exe friendly fashion, it's about the best you can do.