Thanks, Paul. That is a much more complete and "newbie-friendly"
explanation! :-)
On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 March 2016 at 12:42, Anthony Tuininga <anthony.tuini...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > What I mean by that is "hack the code of the dateutil module so that it
> > doesn't look for its data within the file system where the module
> exists".
> > That has been done for a number of modules and packages to make it
> "freezer
> > friendly" and you can do the same for this one. If that sounds scary then
> > your only option is to find another package that does what you want that
> > doesn't have this issue....or wait for me to address this issue in a
> general
> > way.
>
> In this case, the dateutil package does actually use pkgutil.get_data
> to get the zoneinfo file (you can see that in the traceback the OP
> provided), so that will work frozen. However, there's some
> functionality in there that *updates* that file (I've no real idea why
> it needs to do that) and that functionality doesn't work when frozen,
> as the data file is read only. The traceback shows the code trying to
> call a "write" method on the (read only) file object returned from
> get_data.
>
> But as you say, fixing this either needs someone to raise an issue
> with the dateutil package to work when frozen (it may also fail when
> on a read-only filesystem), or the OP to implement his own hack to the
> package to do that. Obviously the better long term solution is to get
> the upstream package fixed, and if the OP isn't comfortable hacking
> the module, that may be his best approach.
> Paul
>
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