On Feb 3, 2005, at 14:21, Charles Hartman wrote:
Sorry, simpleton time again! I've gotten the Mac app to build OK with py2app, but now I'm trying to get my newest project ready for first tests on Windows and running into a problem. My setup.py contains the line
data_files = ['ScansionDictionary'],
and one of my modules contains the line
self.Dict = pickle.load(open('ScansionDictionary', 'rU'))
On Mac, this combination puts the data file inside Resources (inside Contents inside my app's bundle). On Windows it puts the file in the same ('dist') directory as the executable. (Is there a better, more integrated way to do it on Windows?) And when I try to run the executabble the pickle.load line generates this: "LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding". How do I fix this?
There is no more integrated way to do it on Windows.
py2app always automatically includes unicode support (among other things that the python internals may want), py2exe does not make any such effort to reliably produce working applications on your behalf :) See: <http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/moin.cgi/EncodingsAgain> (found by googling for: "no codec search functions registered" py2exe)
Maybe a connnected question: what is the relation between the 'data_files' argument in a setup.py file (as ordained by distutils), and the 'resources' option to py2app?
data_files is a distutils option, and resources is a py2app option. The latter is in there because it's necessary in order to specify resources on the command line. They do the same thing, though. It's somewhat questionable that data_files is used for that purpose at all... but py2exe does it, so py2app does it too.
-bob
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