FIX: Delete the build directory. Simple fix for an obscure and complicated problem...

BTW: That Fix also helps with very very obscure DLL-Not-Found-Problems when updating wxPython - HAM2004-08-30

I'm having some trouble using Python (2.3.4) with py2exe (0.5.0) and wxPython (2.4.2.4). Without py2exe

• my program runs fine, and it compiles fine, but when I run the compiled executable it crashes with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "wxfoo.py", line 10, in ?
from wxPython.wx import *
File "wxPython\wx.pyc", line 4, in ?
File "wxPython\misc.pyc", line 15, in ?
File "wxPython\wx.pyc", line 6, in ?
File "wxPython\misc2.pyc", line 4, in ?
File "wxPython\windows.pyc", line 15, in ?
File "wxPython\wx.pyc", line 10, in ?
File "wxPython\gdi.pyc", line 15, in ?
File "wxPython\wx.pyc", line 12, in ?
File "wxPython\fonts.pyc", line 120, in ?
NameError: name 'wxObjectPtr' is not defined

All wxfoo.py contains is "from wxPython.wx import *" and this happens with every

• wxPython program I try. I've heard of people successfully py2exe'ing wxPython programs before so I wonder if doing something wrong. This is my setup.py:

   1 from distutils.core import setup
   2 import py2exe
   3 
   4 setup(console=["wxfoo.py"])

Anyone have any ideas whats wrong? options={"py2exe": {"includes": "wxPython.wx}} and options={"py2exe": {"package": "wx"}} and windows=["wxfoo.py"] return the same results.

• -jc

I'm having a similar problem in WinXP. Boa Constructor doesn't work with wxPython2.5(it needs 2.4.2.4) but the version of AccessGrid I'm running requires wxPython2.5. I fould that if I just copy the wx and wxPython directories for wxPython2.5 somewhere for safe keeping, then copy in the wx and wxPython directories for wxPython2.4.2.4 Boa will run once. Then on successive attempts, I get the "NameError: name 'wxObjectPtr' is not defined" message from fonts.py. I did have a build directory in the wxPython directory and got rid of that, but even now that the build directory is gone, I'm still getting the same problem. Perhaps there's more to this story? -myk-

FIX: Add the missing DLL to the system folder.

When you package a wx application with py2exe, and the .exe file does not tun successfully, simply copy the missing dll into your system folder. (In WinXP it is often C:\WINDOWS\system32)

We hope that this bug will be fixed at the next py2exe release.