I did this a while back, and I can't remember exactly. Therefore, I may only be able to give you a push in the right direction until someone else can answer it fully.
However, I think you have to force the db into the py2exe compile. I think it's something like this: --force-imports dbhash Try this and see if it works. "Justin Straube" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello, > > Im trying to compile a script with py2exe. The pickle module is causing > the > program to give an error. > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "SETIstat.pyw", line 330, in ? > File "SETIstat.pyw", line 84, in start_up > File "SETIstat.pyw", line 79, in config_load > File "pickle.pyc", line 1390, in load > File "pickle.pyc", line 872, in load > File "pickle.pyc", line 985, in load_string > LookupError: unknown encoding: string-escape > > the data in the pickled file is a dictionary containing a couple strings. > The > strings do contain \n and \t charaters but no other special characters or > anything. > > Does anyone have any suggestions to what I can try to get around this? The > pickle module works fine when the .pyw file is run. Its only when I > compile this > is there an issue. > > Thanks for any help, > > Justin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
