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Please update PyInstaller (Windows)

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wuzzyview

27 Aug, 2014 02:28 PM

I'm running into a bug found in an old version of PyInstaller when, on Windows, I attempt to import CherryPy. It is exactly the same bug as in http://www.pyinstaller.org/ticket/523. According to that, and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pyinstaller/r2pjOVOefXM this bug was fixed in mid-2012.

Please consider using a recent PyInstaller to generate Anki.exe for Windows users. I know getting add-ons that use very specific Python packages to work is not a huge bug to fix but I'm hoping you're very close to upgrading PyInstaller and this will tip the scales :)

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Damien Elmes on 27 Aug, 2014 11:43 PM

   

   I'm afraid I can't update this in a point release due to the risk of regressions, but will look into it in a future development round. In the mean time you're best bet is probably to modify the copy of cherrypy you're bundling to remove the py3k part.

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2. 2 Posted by wuzzyview on 28 Aug, 2014 05:54 AM

   

   Thanks for looking into it Damien! I did hack my system install of CherryPy
   (which I got Anki to see by appending my system's site-packages directory
   to Anki's sys.path) to use if/else instead of try/except, without thinking
   to just bundle a copy of CherryPy in the add-ons folder. Excellent idea!

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Damien Elmes on 28 Aug, 2014 09:49 AM

   

   Happy hacking :-)

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4. Support Staff 4 Posted by Soren Bjornstad on 28 Sep, 2014 07:31 PM

   

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5. Soren Bjornstad closed this discussion on 28 Sep, 2014 07:31 PM.