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Having trouble with modules when converting .py to a .exe using cx_Freeze

I am using Python 3.6.
I have really been learning to program the last few days and I want to send this program to a few people. They are not computer literate so I figured I would turn the program in to a windows executable for them.
I have done this before ages ago, but with simpler programs. My current program uses praw, sqlite3, urllib, os, time, and hurry.filesize.
I have my setup.py configured with the following code:
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
base = None
executables = [Executable("Image Downloader v2.py", base=base)]
packages = ["idna","praw","queue","hurry.filesize"]
options = {
'build_exe': {
'packages':packages,
},
}
setup(
name = "Reddit Image Downloader",
options = options,
version = "2.0",
description = 'Downloads images from Reddit.',
executables = executables
)
When I run python setup.py build from my command line, I get the error "no module named 'hurry.filesize'". I tried changing hurry.filesize in setup.py to just hurry and I get the same error as before, telling me that there is no module named "hurry". I also had to include the "queue" module in setup.py even though it's not part of my program because when I tried to build the executable I kept getting the module error but for "queue". Putting it in that list seems to have fixed that error.
How can I fix this?

"Please install lmxl if you want to use 'options' class", what does this mean?

To use pandas lib, I make a simple python program.
It works well when I run the *.py file. After I pack all the files into a exe with py2exe, I double click the exe to run it, then I get a message in the command line window:
Please install lxml if you want to use 'options' class.
Does it mean lxml lib is not packed into my exe correctly? Anyone know how to solve the problem?
My setup.py is:
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(console=['app.py'],
options={
'py2exe': {
'includes': ['lxml.etree',
'lxml._elementpath',
'numexpr'],
}
}
)
Then the new problem comes:numexpr not found. cannot use engine = numexpr for query/eval if numexpr is not installed.

Creating an Exe with Selenium Module: Py2exe/Pyinstaller

I've looked everywhere. Stackoverflow, various messageboards, the py2exe website, the pyinstaller website...nothing is helping. Including the selenium module, particularly making an exe that supports firefox, seems impossible. I am starting to pull out my hair because using either py2exe and pyinstaller is becoming a huge headache.
Both py2exe and pyinstaller have their share of problems.
My goal is to make one single exe file, without any extra directories, so that other people can use my program if they do not have python/modules.
With py2exe, if I create a setup.py file as such
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(
name='Ask Alfred',
data_files = [('Drivers', ['Drivers/chromedriver.exe',
'Drivers/webdriver.xpi','Drivers/webdriver_prefs.json'])],
version='1.0',
description='Find emails fast!',
author='Me',
windows=[{'script': 'alphy.py'}],
options={
'py2exe':
{
'skip_archive': False,
'optimize': 2,
}
}
)
it will create an exe in the dist folder and a Drivers folder with the files I need, however, if I try to run the exe it will tell me that it could not find these files (because it is looking for them in the library.zip folder). On top of that, my GUI looks terrible (fonts are now grey instead of black and images with white backgrounds now have grey backgrounds).
With pyinstaller, if I use the "--onefile" flag when creating the exe it does not work at all/neither firefox nor chrome gets started.
With either, I only get workable results if I choose to not archive/not make one file. In that case, pyinstaller delivers a fully working solution.

Try this:
options={
'py2exe':
{
'skip_archive': True,
'unbuffered': True,
'bundle_files': 2, #assuming you dont want to include the python interpreter
'optimize': 2,
},
},
zipfile = None

Compiling docx with py2exe

I'm compiling a python script to .exe via py2exe. I originally started compiling it and the entire program ran fine aside from the Word document creation.
My logfile would give me: ERROR: Could not close or save Word Document 'docName.docx' :, so where I am supposed to be supplied an error message - I am not.
I started to think it could do with the missing modules in py2exe, reported as:
The following modules appear to be missing
['ICCProfile', '_imaging_gif', '_scproxy', '_sysconfigdata']
And then I noticed many people didn't care too much about these errors.
I looked in the docx package, located in C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\docx-0.2.4-py2.7.egg\, as installed by easy_install, and saw this docx-templates folder, which I am certain was not imported, so I wrote my setup.py referencing the docx-template I put in my build folder manually:
from distutils.core import setup
from glob import glob
import os
import py2exe
#templatePath = 'C:/Python27/Lib/site-packages/docx-0.2.4-py2.7.egg/docx-template'
setup(
console=['xmlpolicydocx-0.4.py'],
options={
'py2exe':
{
'includes': ['docx', 'PIL', 'lxml.etree', 'lxml._elementpath', 'gzip']
}
},
packages=[
'docx-template'
],
package_data={
'docx-template': [
'_rels/*',
'docProps/*',
'word/theme/*.xml',
'word/*.xml'
],
},
)
Yet I still have no luck in getting docx to work when compiled via py2exe. Any suggestions or methods of debugging I can take to take another look at solving this problem?

Py2Exe and Easgui

I am trying to convert a py file to an exe.
Here is the code for my setupfile
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(console=["mycode.py"])
When I use cmd, it says:
Import Error: No module named easygui
How do I let py2exe know about the easygui? As well as the numpy and mathplotlib (all are used in mycode.py)

First, use pyinstaller. It is newer and better (though I have used py2exe until switching to pyinstaller) And it seems to have much better recipes for finding your included libs.
But for py2exe, you will need to expand that setup.py a bit more to tell it what to include (since they are probably hidden imports)
setup(
console=["mycode.py"],
options={
"py2exe": {
"includes": ["easygui"],
"bundle_files": 1
},
},
zipfile = None,
)
If this fails to build, then easygui is not in your PYTHONPATH properly. Make sure you are not doing something special in your script to add a pythonpath, which would not be visible to py2exe.
You may need to do a little more work with this file for numpy and matplotlib. See this wiki for help

Relative to the issue of the specific dll's mentioned, I had similar issues but fixed those problems by specifically excluding those in the setup lie so:
setup(
console=['DET14.py'],
options={
'py2exe': {
'packages' : ['matplotlib', 'pytz'],
'dll_excludes':['MSVCP90.DLL',
'libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll',
'libgobject-2.0-0.dll',
'libgdk_pixbuf-2.0-0.dll'],
'includes':['scipy.sparse.csgraph._validation',
'scipy.special._ufuncs_cxx']
}
},
data_files=matplotlib.get_py2exe_datafiles()
)`
I would say try adding that exclude to your setup statement.