On 3 Dec 2004 01:46:38 -0800, johan@ (Johan Lindberg) wrote: Thanks Johan,
>I'm assuming that your library.zip now has several encoding-files in >it? And more specifically that you have a file called >"string_escape.pyc" in path "encodings". Right? I had found a stupid mistake in my setup.py. I corrected it and the .zip now has the string_escape.pyc file in the correct path. And also the program runs as it should. > # encoding= iso-8859-1 > spam= "Det här är svenska" > print spam.decode("string-escape") > >What happens when you compile that script to an exe using the above >setup.py? >(don't forget to change windows= ["spam.py"] to console= ["spam.py"]) This gives a LookupError: no codec search function registered: can't find encoding I then tried with the encoding package added and the .exe did print the spam string. >Also you might want to try the py2exe-users list (see >http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/py2exe-users). Thanks, Ill check this out. Regards, Justin Straube -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list