[Py2exe-users] A Newbie question (excluding a package)

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Hello everyone,

I'm very new to py2exe although I have been using Gordon McMillan's Installer
for years.

I have a Python/Tkinter/Pmw application which has been verified under 
Unix and I want to port to Windows using py2exe.
(Users in Windows may not have Python installed such that the application 
must be "self-sufficient")

The application is nothing special except it uses a package which
a user of the program is maintaining. At a startup, the program checks
the package directory and recognizes the modules in the package.

<directory structure>
./prog.py
./a_pkg
./a_pkg/__init__.py  (empty file)
       /foo.py       (user's file)
       /bar.py       (user's file)
       /zot.py       (user's file)

A module in the package is imported using exec
exec ('a_pkg.%s' % module_name)
To enumerate the modules, I used path=a_pkg.__path__ then os.listdir(path[0]).
I want to create an executable of the program excluding the a_pkg 
and below. The program tries to import a_pkg/foo.py, for example, 
from a user directory not from a zipped file.

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First I thought I could use "--exclude" option people mentioned
in the Internet. But it only excludes .pyd, .dll files.

When I run the generated executable, it try to search the directory
inside the libary.zip file (which is impossible).

How can I exclude the package from the "frozen" dist.

There is one more question.
Assuming I could achieve the above, I still have another problem.
"import" only looks for certain directory locations.
Because of that, my program won't work unless the program find 
"a_pkg" directory. But how can I set the Python search path if 
there is no Python installation to begin with.

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Any suggestions, comments are greatly appreciated.
And, thank you for providing such wonderful software to Python
community (otherwise, Windows is a useless platform to me).

Best regards,
Aki Niimura