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py2exe not working on windows 7 starter netbook

I have a netbook with windows 7 starter and when ever I try to run my setup.py, I get either of these errors with their corresponding changes: console = [{"script":"FileName.py"}]
It won't open.
windows = [{"script":"FileName.py"}] It immediately stops working.

My program has a GUI. It just seems that every setup.py variation I try doesn't work. Any ideas?

Right now it looks like: 

#### no arguments  
if len(sys.argv) == 1:  
    sys.argv.append("py2exe")  
####creates a standalone .exe file, no zip files
setup( options = {"py2exe": {"compressed": 1, "optimize": 2, "ascii": 1, "bundle_files": 1}},
       zipfile = None,
       # replace myFile.py with your own code filename here ...
       console = [{"script": 'MyFile.py'}] )

Any and all help is appreciated.

Solution

  • Your setup.py script worked for me on my Windows 7 Professional VM. Tried it with both a simple console script and a wxPython gui script.

    It is not in your example (and I'm assuming you have this), but you'd need the following imports in your setup:

    import sys
from setuptools import setup  # or from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

    Other than that, is your MyFile.py in the same directory as your setup.py? Does your MyFile.py run on its own?