[Py2exe-users] imp.find_module and WebWare

[Fuzzyman <fuz...@vo...>]

Hello all,

I've encountered a problem with Movable Python and WebWare. Because of 
the nature of the problem, it probably applies to anyone who attempts to 
use WebWare with py2exe - or indeed any code that uses ``imp.load_module``.

For full details see :

    http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2006_02_25.shtml#e237

(This has details of a temporary fix to WebWare that gets round the 
immediate problem.)

*Basically*, there is a problem (as far as I can tell) with code that 
uses ``imp.find_module`` (under py2exe) for modules contained in the 
``library.zip``. Because ``find_module`` wants to return an open file as 
one of it's return values it fails with a ``Module Not Found`` error.

For Movable Python I will probably 'monkey patch' ``find_module`` so 
that it extracts the file  and returns it as a cStringIO instance.

I wondered if anyone had encountered/solved this problem before, or if 
there was a better approach ?

Thanks

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml