Re: [Py2exe-users] Problem with compiled App

[Jimmy R. <ji...@re...>]

"jr...@co..." <jr...@co...> wrote:

> Thank you very much for your assistance.  I did find another thread indicating
> the same thing as you have suggested concerning "import decimal" and that has
> fixed the problem.
> 
> On another note...any clues as to why I get this error?
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "MainFrameNeedMaterial.pyo", line 1178, in OnButtonProcess
>   File "MainFrameNeedMaterial.pyo", line 1328, in StartNeedMaterial
>   File "readExcel.pyo", line 14, in readExcel
>   File "xlrd\__init__.pyo", line 366, in open_workbook
>   File "xlrd\__init__.pyo", line 760, in __init__
>   File "xlrd\compdoc.pyo", line 168, in __init__
>   File "xlrd\compdoc.pyo", line 50, in __init__
> LookupError: unknown encoding: utf_16_le

I would guess the Unicode encodings are not being picked up. You can add
them like this:

  setup(
      ... whatever you already have here ...,
      options={
          'py2exe': {
              'includes': ['decimal'],
              'packages': ['encodings']
          }
      }
  )

Regards,
Jimmy