Introduction
[http://matplotlib.sf.net MatPlotLib] is a module to produce nice-looking plots in Python using a wide variety of back-end packages, at least one of which is likely to be available for your system. This ability to do things in a generic fashion makes this a simple system to use, but it gets complicated if you wish to distribute an executable instead of scripts. This page describes what I had to do to make matplotlib work with py2exe.
Special content for setup.py to use matplotlib
1 # We need to import the glob module to search for all files.
2 import glob
3
4 # We need to exclude matplotlib backends not being used by this executable. You may find
5 # that you need different excludes to create a working executable with your chosen backend.
6 # We also need to include matplotlib.numerix.random_array
7 opts = {
8 'py2exe': { 'includes': 'matplotlib.numerix.random_array',
9 'excludes': ['_gtkagg', '_tkagg'],
10 'dll_excludes': ['libgdk-win32-2.0-0.dll',
11 'libgobject-2.0-0.dll']
12 }
13 }
14
15 # Additional data files are required by matplotlib. Note that the glob.glob routine
16 # doesn't seem to pick up the .matplotlib resource file, so I copy that separately.
17 # Do the same if you need to
18 setup(
19 data_files = [(r'matplotlibdata', glob.glob(r'c:\python24\share\matplotlib\*')),
20 (r'matplotlibdata', [r'c:\python24\share\matplotlib\.matplotlibrc'])],
21 name = 'demo',
22 description = 'MatPlotLib Demo Program',
23 console = ['demo.py']
24 )
Copying PyTZ folder
Now copy pytz folder from C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages to your dist/ folder and you're done!
Update for newer versions of matplotlib
Recent versions of matplotlib (this is tested with 0.87) have changed the location where data files are found. Here is a sample setup.py that works with simple matplotlib samples. It produces massive distributions - more work needs to be done on how to exclude unused backends.
1 from distutils.core import setup
2 import py2exe
3
4 from distutils.filelist import findall
5 import os
6 import matplotlib
7 matplotlibdatadir = matplotlib.get_data_path()
8 matplotlibdata = findall(matplotlibdatadir)
9 matplotlibdata_files = []
10 for f in matplotlibdata:
11 dirname = os.path.join('matplotlibdata', f[len(matplotlibdatadir)+1:])
12 matplotlibdata_files.append((os.path.split(dirname)[0], [f]))
13
14
15 setup(
16 console=['test.py'],
17 options={
18 'py2exe': {
19 'packages' : ['matplotlib', 'pytz'],
20 }
21 },
22 data_files=matplotlibdata_files
23 )
