Re: [Py2exe-users] Adapting an egg installation for py2exe

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Jamal,

Jamal Mazrui wrote:
> Since py2exe does not find modules in .egg archives, can anyone suggest
> a general procedure for adapting such an installation so that it is
> compatible with py2exe?  For example, I have had some success
> unarchiving the .egg into a subdirectory of my application directory,
> but evidently there is more to it because I typically still need to
> tweek code in .py source files so that it works properly.

I use this type of code to install packages like sqlalchemy and pytz.

easy_install.main(['-Zmaxd', sitePKG, egg])

And then I use in my app and in py2exe setup code like this.

if not hasattr(sys, 'frozen'):
     import pkg_resources
     pkg_resources.require("sqlalchemy") # get latest version

Note the above is only needed if you do a multi version easy_install.

And also in the setup.py I need:
packages = ['email', 'Ft', 'kinterbasdb', 'pytz', 'setuptools', 
'sqlalchemy']

However I haven't gotten it to work with e.g. amara or pyparsing. 
Haven't had time yet to try and figure it out and I have non egg 
installs of these packages.

Werner