Yes, it helps! Thank you Steve, that is a clever work around. I am happy with it, as I can proceed past this hiccup just fine. Curiousity prompts me to ask: is the 'frozen' sys attribute public, e.g. documented in the pyinstaller documentation? Any other goodies in there? Arra
On Monday, September 4, 2023 at 4:04:12 AM UTC-4 Steve Barnes wrote: > Hi Arra, > > > > Just a suggestion *as a work around* you could modify your “if __debug__” > cases to read “if __debug__ and not getattr(sys, 'frozen', *False*) “ this > would disable the debug on your built executables for you. See > https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/runtime-information.html for more. > > > > Hope that helps, > > Steve Barnes > > > > *From:* pyins...@googlegroups.com <pyins...@googlegroups.com> *On Behalf > Of *Arra Avakian > *Sent:* Sunday, September 3, 2023 10:45 PM > *To:* pyins...@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [PyInstaller] pyinstaller is great > > > > Dear pyinstaller team, > > I have used pyinstaller to create executables on both Windows and MacOS. > I have written a complex GUI using wxPython and pyinstaller does an > amazing job! > Congratulations for designing, building, and maintaining this complex tool. > (I need to separately congratulate the wxPython team as well. My app uses > background threading so that the GUI user can cancel any long running > activity.) > > I am a programmer who retired after a 50+ year career that started in 1967! > I first learned about programming in assembly and Fortran II on an IBM > 1620. > > I tried using "if __debug__" in my code and found I could suppress > affected code using the python option -O (optimization). I found that > pyinstaller did not complain about incorrect options when I added > "--python-option=-O". But it looks like the python interpreter was run > without that switch. When I run my python script using the -O switch, I can > see that my program is skipping over the debug dependent code. > > So I am guessing there might be a deeper reason that this particular > python option is not supported by pyinstaller. If it becomes available in > the future, I would love to hear about it! > > Thanks again, > Arra Avakian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PyInstaller" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pyinstaller...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pyinstaller/CAM_S47RFx70RrRNvNvKv47sC5zra2zeyc0nAD6-JH1Jg5F-K-Q%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pyinstaller/CAM_S47RFx70RrRNvNvKv47sC5zra2zeyc0nAD6-JH1Jg5F-K-Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pyinstaller+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pyinstaller/b57cffde-d094-4807-a39b-caf32683dcc7n%40googlegroups.com.
