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Python file converrted to .exe says has files and modules

I have used several tools (pyinstaller, cx_Freeze, py2exe) to convert my .py file to .exe file. But with each one of these, the resultant .exe file closes as soon as it runs. Here is a screenshot of the exe file created form pyinstaller.
I have looked at several answers on SO and other platforms but haven't been able to find a solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My apologies for not being able to type these traccebacks out here as I had to take a quick screenshot as the window closed in a second.
The .py file runs fine on its own; there's no issue with the code.

I had this problem about a year ago with pyinstaller and this 2 methods helped me:
Adding import pkg_resources.py2_warn to my script
Using --onedir instead of --onefile

You can also do it using cmd:
pip install pyinstaller
cd followed by the location where your Python script is stored
so an example is:
cd C:\Users\Ron\Desktop\MyPython
then:
pyinstaller --onefile pythonScriptName.py
instead of pythonscriptname.py, put in your python file name.
When you do this there should be a new file called dist in your directory. Wait for a few mins and there should be an .exe file in there.

Here's a temporay solution: I removed all imports related to the googleapiclient for google docs. The .py file gets compiled properly after that.
More Context: There seems to be some issue in this particular library library that causes issues. I have tested the given solutions, they don't seem to work for me. I'll update this answer if I find a "permanent" solution.

I'm getting this error when I'm trying to make an .exe file through pyinstaller - "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'acrcloud_extr_tool'"

Im using ACRCloud to recognize an audio file, I've build a GUI using tkinter and I'm freezing the code as an .exe file using PyInstaller. However, I'm getting this error when I'm running the .exe file:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'acrcloud_extr_tool'
If I run it directly from the script, there's no error and it runs fine. Some help, please? I'm just starting out.

From my experience using pyinstaller, I need to add a parameter to the build command, so that pyinstaller knows where to look for modules. If you are building from a command prompt, the line may read something like this:
pyinstaller "yourFileName.py"
However, you can add other commands to this that specify how the exe is built - whether it has a custom icon, is console based or the console is hidden, etc. Additionally, you can add a list of paths, telling pyinstaller where to look for your modules and that's done like this:
pyinstaller -p C:\theFolderWhereYourCustomModulesAreSaved:C:\Users\yourName\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Lib\site-packages "yourFileName.py"
Notice there are no quotation marks around these file paths AND that they are separated by a colon. The path to your Python site packages may be a bit different than mine, but I left in all the same path info with the exception of my username, so edit that as needed for your own machine. Also, the first 'fake' path I have shown in the example would be if you have written some of your own modules and are importing them into your project. For example, if your main project is saved in C:\myProject but you have modules you've written that are imported into your program like this:
import myCustomModule
and THOSE modules are saved in C:\myProject\myModules, then you would change that command to look like this:
pyinstaller -p C:\myProject\myModules:C:\Users\yourName\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Lib\site-packages "yourFileName.py"
Hopefully this solves your problem.

I solved it. Turns out due to it being a binary file (of .pyd extension), it had to be added explicitly in the .spec file (read the pyinstaller documentation). I did it and it ran like a charm.

How to convert Python project into executable

I have a Python project that I want to convert into an executable. I have installed Pyinstaller. I only know how to convert one single script into .exe, but I have multiple packages with multiple python scripts.

The command line I used with success is:
pyinstaller --noupx --onefile --add-data="cprofiles.ui;." cprofiles_lmfit.py
pyinstaller manages relatively well the multiple '.py' files that you import, no need to cite them. Under the 'add-data' option, you list the non-py files and in my example, the 'cprofiles_lmfit.py' file is the one containing the main.
But as indicated here need help to compile python with pyinstaller (and in few other posts), I am a beginner with pyinstaller. I was never able to use the 'theano' module and I did not optimize. I still have to test the suggestions in the answer.

Converting the main script into .exe should solve the problem, use -onefile to convert it to one exe and rest of the .py files should be included.

1) Open the command prompt
2) Install pyinstaller
Pip install pyinstaller
3) Test your python script first just to check python script should work with normal
.py extension. Saurabh is the name of python file
python saurabh.py
4) Convert the python into executable file
pyinstaller --onefile Saurabh.py
Notice we have passed “–onefile” as a argument which tell pyinstaller to create only one file
5) Go to directory and navigate to the dist folder.
Prerequisite : Install PyQt5 to avoid error.
pip install PyQt5

How do I convert my code from python3.6 to exe using cxfreeze?

NOTE: Before marking this as duplicate please read the whole post first
I'm trying for hours to convert my python 3.6 code to exe, I've searched everywhere and tried everything, the most helpful place was there:
Best method of converting .py to .exe for Python 3.6?
So apparently there are only 3 ways of converting py to exe:
PyInstaller
Py2exe
Cxfreeze
Pyinstaller doesn't support Python 3.6, and py2exe is very outdated.
As for cxfreeze, it sounds like it supports Python 3.6, so that's the route that I've taken.
I've searched everywhere on how to use cxfreeze, unfortunately, all guides that I have found seem to be outdated:
http://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html this guide for example has three routes, two of which doesn't work (The first gives me a .spec file that i dont know what to do with it and the second gives me an error because i dont have the cxfreeze.util module) and the 3rd is too complicated for my tastes
How do I use cx_freeze? this uses the second route, still it doesn't work

I'm not allowed to comment for some reason, so this isn't really an answer, but for my part I installed cx_Freeze from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cx_Freeze
When you install it, there's an extra step that's not documented. Using the Windows CMD shell, go to your python installation directory, into the Scripts sub-directory and you will find a few files called cxfreeze...
You need to create the batch file by typing python cxfreeze-postinstall
A file called cxfreeze.bat will be created which you can move into your main python folder or wherever your python program is located.
Then type cxfreeze mypythonprogram.py --target-dir dist
This should create a working exe in the dist directory. However, it doesn't work for me as I get an error in the finder.py file which is part of the cxfreeze installation so I don't know if I've done something wrong or this version is completely buggy.
edit: by commenting out line 561 in the finder.py file (C:\Python\Python36-32\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\finder.py on my system) I was able to run it and Generate the EXE which appears to run OK.

cx_freeze, mpl_toolkits/basemap/ how include the data folder in the build library.zip

I am struggling a lot trying to create a .exe for my Gui originaly coded with opensuse. I am trying to make the .exe for windows (under XP). cx_freeze seems to work better for my case. The build folder is created properly but when I try to run .exe I have the following error :
"proj data directory not found. Expecting it at C:\Python\build\exe.win32-2.7\library.zip\mpl_toolkits\basemap\data "
So do you know how I could do my setup.py in order to copy the folder mpl_toolkits\basemap\data to library.zip?

Here I posted my working solution for the same issue: https://stackoverflow.com/a/26519937/2741329
My fix requires 2 changes:
- Adding the files to include in the cx_freeze setup script
- Adding an OS environment variable in the user script
A similar issue with the same fix was also adressed here by simply adding in the setup file a list of tuple for include_files as [("C:\\Python31\\Lib\\site-packages\\PyQt4\\mpl-data", "mpl-data")]
This is not enough for Basemap since cx_freeze put by default its scripts into a zipped file.