pythonpyinstaller

I am stuck with PyInstaller Error ModuleNotFound

I am loosing my mind on trying to build an .exe file with pyinstaller, since even thou I made sure to pip install the module and add it to hidden import it still cannot find it.

To be more specific here are my imports on the file that causes the problem

from sortedcontainers import SortedList
from twitchio.ext import commands
from queue import Empty
from PIL import Image
import datetime as dt
import aiohttp
import requests
import asyncio
import json
import io
import os
import twitchio.errors

Now, I get the error with 'sortedcontainers', but if I move it down then the same error will come for 'twitchio', making it not specific module dependent

This is the error I get when running the built .exe file

File "main.py", line 1, in <module>

File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod02_importers.py", line 457, in exec_module

File "twitch_bot.py", line 1, in <module>

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sortedcontainers'

And these is my requirements.txt if useful for context

customtkinter~=5.2.2
aiohttp~=3.12.13
requests~=2.32.4
twitchio~=2.10.0
sortedcontainers~=2.4.0
pillow~=11.3.0

As for bash commands, I tried few, here are some:

pyinstaller --clean --noconsole -F --name "Twitch Chatter Catcher" main.py

pyinstaller --clean --noconsole -F --name "Twitch Chatter Catcher" main.py --hidden-import=sortedcontainers --hidden-import=twitchio

pyinstaller --clean --noconsole -F --name "Twitch Chatter Catcher" main.py --hidden-import sortedcontainers

pyinstaller --noconsole -F --name "Twitch Chatter Catcher" main.py

And my code is structured as follows:

Project/
├─ requirements.txt/
├─ setup/
│  ├─ setup_gui.py
├─ themes/
│  ├─ purple_twitch.json
├─ gui.py
├─ main.py
├─ README.md
├─ twitch_bot.py

Anyone got a tip?

Edit: Added screenshot of error as shown

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And the same Traceback in text:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 1, in <module>
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod02_importers.py", line 457, in exec_module
  File "twitch_bot.py", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sortedcontainers'
Solution

  • I resolved the issue by adding a pyproject.toml file, inserting as dependencies all the modules and versions I had in the requirements.txt
    Then I ran in terminal the command pip install . to build it, then finally

    
pyinstaller --onefile --name "Twitch Chatter Catcher" --windowed main.py --add-data "themes/purple_twitch.json;themes" --hidden-import=sortedcontainers --hidden-import=twitchio

    in the terminal to build the actual .exe application