Extending example¶

Where to correct¶

Within site-packages/py2exe/samples/extending/setup.py

(line 54 ff..)

################################################################
# arguments for the setup() call

test_wx = dict(
    script = "test_wx.py",
    other_resources = [(RT_MANIFEST, 1, manifest_template % dict(prog="test_wx"))],
    dest_base = r"prog\test_wx")

zipfile = r"lib\shardlib"

options = {"py2exe": {"compressed": 1,
                      "optimize": 2}}

################################################################

what to do¶

The Error is within

zipfile = r"lib\shardlib"

it has to be

zipfile = r"lib\shardlib.zip"

additional information¶

I stumbled upon while trying to include win32com.client - that module was not able to find gen_py/__init__.py

20040112 HAM

the cause¶

This problem is a limitation of the current win32all (build 163, currently).

py2exe itself does not require that the zipfile has a .zip extension (and this can be useful to obscure the contents of this file).

I've sent Mark Hammond a patch ;-)

-- Thomas Heller