I have installed pyinstaller like this pip install pyinstaller
as a Youtube video said to convert pyw to exe.
Then the tutorial said to convert pyw to exe you need to type pyinstaller -w filename.pyw
, but this doesn't work for me why?
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pyinstaller
is not a command on your system's PATH, which means that your terminal cannot find it. Because it is a Python module, you may be able to run it with python -m pyinstaller -w main.pyw
. This -m <name>
specifies that we wish to run a Python module with the given name
.
Alternatively, you can add the location of the pyinstaller
folder to your PATH. However, this requires finding out where pyinstaller
was installed with pip
, too. I've generally used the former strategy, and that's the strategy I recommend.

Tom Aarsen
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it says there is no module named pyinstaller – Jan 18 '22 at 11:03
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I would recommend looking over here, then: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44740792/pyinstaller-no-module-named-pyinstaller. That should help – Tom Aarsen Jan 18 '22 at 11:07
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that doesnt help – Jan 18 '22 at 11:10
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iam trying to convert pyw to exe – Jan 18 '22 at 11:11