I am trying to build a standalone Python 2.7 application on MacOS (it relies on some old code) using py2app. My program relies on a number of packages, including pyne. The program uses a conda environment for package management (which is located in a separate directory), and I am trying to build the program with that environment. The application gets built just fine by py2app, but when I run it through the terminal it throws the following error:
File "material.pyx", line 28, in init pyne.material
File "tables/__init__.pyc", line 142, in <module>
File "tables/tests/__init__.pyc", line 22, in <module>
File "tables/tests/common.pyc", line 27, in <module>
File "pkg_resources/__init__.pyc", line 959, in <module>
File "pkg_resources/__init__.pyc", line 963, in Environment
File "pkg_resources/__init__.pyc", line 190, in get_supported_platform
File "pkg_resources/__init__.pyc", line 395, in get_build_platform
File "sysconfig.pyc", line 618, in get_platform
File "sysconfig.pyc", line 482, in get_config_vars
File "sysconfig.pyc", line 365, in _init_posix
ImportError: No module named _sysconfigdata
Looking around in my system, it looks like the _sysconfigdata file in question is located in
/anaconda3/envs/ENVIRONMENT_NAME/lib/python2.7/_sysconfigdata.py
My setup.py file looks like this:
from setuptools import setup
APP = ['app.py']
DATA_FILES = ["file1.csv", "folder1"]
PACKAGES = ["pyne"]
OPTIONS = {"packages": PACKAGES}
setup(
app=APP,
data_files=DATA_FILES,
options={'py2app': OPTIONS},
setup_requires=['py2app'],
name="NAME",
include_package_data=True,
)
I am still fairly new to using py2app, and I'm having trouble figuring out how to include this _sysconfigdata file in the program. Adding it to the DATA_FILES does not seem to help. What is the best way to resolve this issue?
I discovered that this issue went away if I edited the PACKAGES list to
PACKAGES = PACKAGES = ["pyne", "_sysconfigdata"]
I guess py2app wasn't otherwise aware that _sysconfigdata was an important module.