exe file generated by py2exe cannot do file operations - python

Here's my situation. I used py2exe to generated some python codes to exe in Windows, everything works fine except for the file operations. The exe file cannot create open, read or close files while the python scripts works fine.
It is a simple pyqt program that only includes some dialogs, string operations, and saving the results into a file.
Anyone has any clue about it? My python version is 3.4 and OS is Win7

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Information Property List
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