Problems with PyInstaller

Question

I would like to bundle an application into an executable using PyInstaller. I am having issues because of the geopandas library. Currently my script throwaway.py contains only the following import:

import geopandas

However running pyinstaller throwaway.py does not work. It appears to have problems with PyQt5 which only matplotlib imports.

The log for pyinstalleris too long to include here however the following shows the last exception encountered:

Exception:
            Cannot find existing PyQt5 plugin directories
            Paths checked: c:/qt/qt_1489878162099/_b_env/Library/plugins

I am not sure how to approach this, but there are a couple of conceptual options:

Find a way to exclude the geopandas import of matplotlib. I am not using matplotlib so I don't really need it to be packaged in the first place
Figure out why this problem is occurring and prevent/fix it

What can I do next?

Panos Kalatzantonakis · Answer 1 · 2018-11-02T10:18:12.070

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This pyinstaller -y -d --clean throwaway.py works for me.

Also, check this question.

There is an issue with the recursing limit, stated here. Try to increase it like this:

import sys
sys.setrecursionlimit(5000)

edited Nov 02 '18 at 10:18

answered Nov 02 '18 at 10:00

Panos Kalatzantonakis

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Works for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Python 3.7, fresh install of geopanda – Panos Kalatzantonakis Nov 02 '18 at 10:08
I am using python 3.6.6 from within an anaconda environment. I also just updated my `geopandas` doing `conda update geopandas` and still get the error. My project requires the use of `python 3.6.6` so I have no choice here – user32882 Nov 02 '18 at 10:11
Check if recursion limit (in my answer) do the job – Panos Kalatzantonakis Nov 02 '18 at 10:12
I added the `setrecursionlimit` before my `geopandas` import. Same problem. – user32882 Nov 02 '18 at 10:15
For some, it worked by adding it into the spec file (to the beginning of the spec file) and then run pyinstaller filename.spec – Panos Kalatzantonakis Nov 02 '18 at 10:16
Still the same problem. I think its a deeper underlying problem. – user32882 Nov 02 '18 at 10:18

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 02 '18 at 15:53

I solved this problem by downloading the development version of pyinstaller as follows:

pip install https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/archive/develop.zip

I got the above from this link. The current conda-forge distribution of pyinstaller still does not include this change which is included in the development version. The code prior to that change is what was causing the error in the question to occur.

Hopefully the conda-forge distribution will soon come to incorporate this into the main distribution.

So basically if you are experiencing this problem you have two choices:

Install development version of PyInstaller and use that
Manually go inside the ~\anaconda3\Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\utils\hooks\qt.py and modify the file as indicated here

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