How to freeze Python PySide file using py2exe to one exe file?

Question

I tried to freeze my Python PySide file to exe, it works well when I'm doing it with 'bundle_files': 3 but when i try to do it with 'bundle_files': 1 im getting this error in log:

WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified.

this is my setup.py:

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe, sys, os

sys.argv.append('py2exe')

setup(
    excludes=['_ssl',  # Exclude _ssl
                                    'pyreadline', 'difflib', 'doctest', 'locale',
                                    'optparse', 'pickle', 'calendar'],  # Exclude standard library
    dll_excludes=['msvcr71.dll'],  # Exclude msvcr71
    compressed=True,  # Compress library.zip
    options = {'py2exe': {'bundle_files': 1, 'compressed': True}},
    windows = [{'script': "myFile.py", "icon_resources": [(1, "icon.ico")]}],
    zipfile = None,
)

This is the log:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "MultiClipboard.py", line 4, in <module>
File "zipextimporter.pyc", line 82, in load_module
File "PySide\__init__.pyc", line 41, in <module>
File "PySide\__init__.pyc", line 11, in _setupQtDirectories
File "PySide\_utils.pyc", line 97, in get_pyside_dir
File "PySide\_utils.pyc", line 88, in _get_win32_case_sensitive_name
File "PySide\_utils.pyc", line 63, in _get_win32_short_name
WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified.

Answer 1

Py2exe does not support this feature on 64-bit machines. If you need to bundle all your project into one file, you should try to use pyinstaller instead