Pyinstaller and Django Rest

Question

I am trying to use Pyinstaller with django rest, it generates the .exe well but there is an error at the moment of executing the .exe, the error is this

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'rest_framework'

my question is how can I install the dependencies using Pyinstaller, or is there another way to do it.

Answer 1

This error ocurrs when you have dynamic imports in your code. In that case, pyinstaller don't include those packages in exe file. In that case you can:

1. Add unused import of those packages in your code
2. Tell pyinstaller to include it

One file option does not change anything in running your code. If you're create --onefile exe all files created by pyinstaller are packed to exe file, and unpacked to local temp every time when you run exe.

Other Possible Solutions are:

Solution 1: run your command from parent directory, i.e. instead of

c:\compilation\Gui>pyinstaller --name=gui manage.py

do

c:\compilation>pyinstaller --name=gui Gui\manage.py

Also Add runserver to the End of the File.

if still the Issue Persists, Then Solution 2: pyinstaller --name=gui --exclude-module=PyQt4 --exclude-module=matplotlib --clean --win-private-assemblies manage.py runserver