On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 10:24 PM Steve Barnes <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Despite the fact that the documentation is light on documentation deface
> is actually usable as a python package as well as as a command line tool.
> If you look at the code in *your_python_installation\* 
> *lib\site-packages\deface\deface.py
> *or at https://github.com/ORB-HD/deface/blob/master/deface/deface.py and
> especially at how the main function works then you should be able to
> duplicate mains functionality but with the values coming from your GUI
> rather than from the call to parse_cli_args
>

Too bad they didn't factor that a bit differently -- but as a hack, you may
be able to set sys.argv, and then call parse_cli_args, if that's easier.

-CHB



>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> *On
> Behalf Of *Abh Hom
> *Sent:* 04 November 2024 15:38
> *To:* PyInstaller <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* [PyInstaller] Package not recognized or installed from
> pyinstaller
>
>
>
> I'm trying to create a UI for the deface package (
> https://pypi.org/project/deface/) in python using Tkinter as the basic UI
> elements. When I run the exe on my own computer which has all the packages
> installed (deface and ttkbootstrap) the program runs fine.
>
>
>
> But whenever I run this same exe on a separate machine that does not have
> deface package manually installed, the program sends me an error saying
> 'deface' is not a recognized command.
>
>
>
> For context, the deface package in python is a command line tool, so it
> runs entirely on the shell level rather than on a 'function from a script'
> level. Or at least this is my understanding.
>
>
>
> I've tried to manually direct pyinstaller to the deface package using
> --add-data, and --CollectALL, and changing the spec file to make sure the
> 'deface' package is listed there but in all these methods, the same problem
> still occurs. At each point, and with every iteration of the pyinstaller
> exe, the failure point seems to be this line:
>
>
>
> command = ["deface", file, "-t", str(current_threshold), "-o",
> outputfilename]
>
> process = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
> stderr=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
>
>
>
> First, I'm constructing the 'command' with all my required arguments for
> the 'deface' package. Then I'm passing this through to the command line
> using subprocess().
>
>
>
> The error is still 'deface' is not recognized as a command, function etc.
> etc.
>
>
>
> Is there something that I'm doing wrong? Is this error occurring because
> I'm sending this variable down to the command line using this exe file
> which is an incorrect method?
>
>
>
> Thanks to anyone who gives feedback here. My current workaround is having
> to manually install python, deface, and ttkbootstrap beforehand and then my
> program runs just fine but I wanted a nice workaround this just because my
> potential users may not have technological expertise to install python and
> deface package by themselves. I wanted to give a nice 'point and click'
> method for my program and user interface.
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