Re: [Pyobjc-dev] PyObjC Standalone applications socket problem

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

On Apr 14, 2004, at 9:46 AM, David Giffin wrote:

> I have been using PyObjC for a few weeks now and as a rule, I love it. 
> I have hit a snag though. When I bundle an application using the 
> --standalone option it builds, but the program fails when it goes to 
> use a socket. This problem doesn't occur when I build with the 
> --sem-standalone option, only when using the --standalone. The program 
> actually continues to run, no crash or anything, but it does not do 
> it's socket communications. The actual error that I find in the 
> console is:
>
> no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding
>
> Any help with this would be appreciated. I am running on Panther with 
> all the latest updates. The whole reason I need the --standalone 
> option is because I have been getting requests for programs I have 
> written from users on Jaguar, and the programs won't run on Jaguar as 
> --semi-shared.

It has nothing to do with sockets really, you probably just need to 
include the encodings package, the _codecs extension, and the codecs 
module.  These are all imported implicitly by Python internals 
as-needed, so BundleBuilder isn't necessarily going to pick it up on 
its own.

-bob