py2exe problem

**Grant Edwards** · Jul 18 '05, 08:42 PM

Re: py2exe problem

On 2005-01-26, Club-B42 <club4_2@mail.r u> wrote:
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> i've compiled my programm using command "python setup.py py2exe >1"
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> python script works fine, but .exe version fails with[/color]
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> LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding[/color]

Googling for the error message will find you the answer. I
don't remember what it is, but that's how I found it. IIRC,
it's the very first in when you google Usenet. You need to
tell py2exe to include some module-or-other that it doesn't by
default. I don't remember the exact recipe, but I've got it at
work. If you can't figure it out by tomorrow, let me know and
I'll post a snippet from my setup.py file.

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**Harald Massa** · Jul 18 '05, 08:42 PM

Re: py2exe problem

Grant Edwards
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> LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding
> Googling for the error message will find you the answer.[/color]

http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/moin.cgi/Py2Exe

carries within "encodings" and "encodings again" receipes to get it
working.

A software development system which REALLY solves the encodings problem
WITHOUT creating a swarm of new ones could would challange even my
devotedness to Python :))))

Harald

**Thomas Heller** · Jul 18 '05, 08:42 PM

Re: py2exe problem

Harald Massa <cpl.19.ghum@sp amgourmet.com> writes:
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> Grant Edwards
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>> LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding
>> Googling for the error message will find you the answer.[/color]
>
> http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/moin.cgi/Py2Exe
>
> carries within "encodings" and "encodings again" receipes to get it
> working.
>
> A software development system which REALLY solves the encodings problem
> WITHOUT creating a swarm of new ones could would challange even my
> devotedness to Python :))))[/color]

AFAIK, McMillan Installer solves this by including all the encodings
stuff by default, and it has a --ascii flag to override this behaviour.
Would that be a solution?

Thomas

**Harald Massa** · Jul 18 '05, 08:44 PM

Re: py2exe problem

Thomas Heller <theller@python .net> wrote in
news:zmywh4yx.f sf@python.net:
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>>
>> A software development system which REALLY solves the encodings
>> problem WITHOUT creating a swarm of new ones could would challange
>> even my devotedness to Python :))))[/color]
>
> AFAIK, McMillan Installer solves this by including all the encodings
> stuff by default, and it has a --ascii flag to override this
> behaviour. Would that be a solution?[/color]

Thomas,

I solved the headaches with py2exe and encodings, again and again ...
even documented some of these steps within the wiki.

But encodings still give me new pain any day: storing filenames to
databases, displaying filenames in windows-controls, sending
database-extracts to excel or word ... time on time encodings and/or
unicode errors pop up and cause me misery.

So my cryout is for a solution for all encoding-problems like the python
for-loop or list-comprehensions: elegant, simple, robust, flexible. Easy
to use, easy to implement.

Harald

**Thomas Heller** · Jul 18 '05, 08:44 PM

Re: py2exe problem

Harald Massa <cpl.19.ghum@sp amgourmet.com> writes:
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> Thomas Heller <theller@python .net> wrote in
> news:zmywh4yx.f sf@python.net:
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>>>
>>> A software development system which REALLY solves the encodings
>>> problem WITHOUT creating a swarm of new ones could would challange
>>> even my devotedness to Python :))))[/color]
>>
>> AFAIK, McMillan Installer solves this by including all the encodings
>> stuff by default, and it has a --ascii flag to override this
>> behaviour. Would that be a solution?[/color]
>
> Thomas,
>
> I solved the headaches with py2exe and encodings, again and again ...
> even documented some of these steps within the wiki.[/color]

Much appreciated!
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> But encodings still give me new pain any day: storing filenames to
> databases, displaying filenames in windows-controls, sending
> database-extracts to excel or word ... time on time encodings and/or
> unicode errors pop up and cause me misery.
>
> So my cryout is for a solution for all encoding-problems like the python
> for-loop or list-comprehensions: elegant, simple, robust, flexible. Easy
> to use, easy to implement.[/color]

Armin,

Would the above (include all encodings stuff by default) be a good
solution, or do you have other ideas?

Thomas

**Harald Massa** · Jul 18 '05, 08:45 PM

Re: py2exe problem

Thomas,
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> Would the above (include all encodings stuff by default) be a good
> solution, or do you have other ideas?[/color]

I assume a good solution would involve switching pythons default from
"ASCII" to "UNICODE" :)

But ... as far as py2exe is concerned, yeah, I think it would be helpfull
to include all encoding by default (undefaultable, of course), or at least
provide in the very very first simple setup.py example the include
encodings.* stuff.

Harald Armin

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