= Encoding =

== Solution 1 ==

In py2exe 0.5, if the encodings are not found in the built exe (indicated by {{{LookupError: no codec search functions registered}}} error message), add these two to the ''includes'':
{{{
#!python
'encodings', 'encodings.*'
}}}

You can do this by adding a line
{{{
#!python
options = {"py2exe": {"packages": ["encodings"]}},
}}}
to your setup.py file.

That replaces the {{{'--force-imports encodings'}}} command line option from the [[http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/|0.4py2exe]]


== Solution 2 ==

Adding {{{'encodings', 'encodings.*'}}} to includes includes ALL encodings. I'm perfectly happy with only having latin-1 present (at least for some application, which will only be used in western europe)

so recommended adding {{{
#!python
'encodings', 'encodings.latin_1'
}}}

20041201HAM

== Sample ==
To avoid misunderstandings here is a sample setup.py
{{{
#!python
from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
      
setup(console=["MyScript.py"],
      options = {"py2exe": {"packages": ["encodings"]}},
)
}}}
(which by the way is roughly the same as {{{setup.py py2exe --packages encodings}}}.)


== changed behaviour ==

just "to be sure" I included "encodings" within options and again within the setup-command:

{{{
#!python
includes = ["encodings",
            "encodings.latin_1",]
[...]
options = {"py2exe": { # create a compressed zip archive
                      "compressed": 1,
                      "optimize": 2,
                      "excludes": excludes,
                      "includes": includes,
                          }}
[...]

setup(
    options = options,
    # The lib directory contains everything except the executables and the python dll.
    zipfile = zipfile,
    windows = [wxprog],
    console=[consprog],
    # use out build_installer class as extended py2exe build command
    cmdclass = {"py2exe": build_installer},
    packages = ["encodings"], #this line is rather wrong, at least not helpfull
    data_files=[("",["kategorien.xml","skm.cmd"]),
    ]
    )
}}}

py2exe 0.5.0 silently ignored the line
{{{
#!python
    packages = ["encodings"], #this line is rather wrong, at least not helpfull
}}}

py2exe 0.5.2 now uses this line for something and fails with:

{{{
running py2exe
running build_py
error: package directory 'encodings' does not exist
}}}

so: just trash that line and everything is sunny again. HAM20040713