Re: [Py2exe-users] Error when running exe...

[Thomas H. <th...@py...>]

"S.Holmgren" <ste...@ms...> writes:

> Hi,
> Got a strange error message when trying to run my new generated exe file
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<string>", line 2169, in ?
>    File "wxPython\wx.pyo", line 1957, in __init__
>    File "<string>", line 1743, in OnInit
>    File "<string>", line 1562, in __init__
> NameError: global name 'ID_OPEN_PROJECT' is not defined
> 16:19:17: Debug: e:\Projects\wx2.4\src\msw\app.cpp(407):
> 'UnregisterClass(MDI parent)' failed with error 0x00000584
> (class still as open windows.).
>
> I have this constant, ID_OPEN_PROJECT, in a file (Define.py) that I
> import in the begining of the code with "from Define import *", I have
> no problem running the source code, just my exe file that generate
> this error... I have never had this problem before and I have made exe
> files with py2exe many time with the same code, no problem, but now
> suddenly it wont work??!!??!!, i havent change a thing in the code
> where I have this constant.
>
> Some how py2exe dont import or use the file Define!, but it looks like
> he compile the file like before, I got no error from py2exe...

I have no real explanation for this, but I have seen similar problems
before by other people using 'from xyz import *' a lot.
Maybe rewriting your code to avoid this idiom helps. Even better would
be if someone finds the reason for this behaviour.

Thomas