PyInstaller and Pandas

I ran into the same issue. I boiled it down to a simple script like this Hello.py:

import pandas
print "hello world, pandas was imported successfully!"

To get pandas to import at run-time correctly I had to modify the Hello.spec to the following:

# -*- mode: python -*-

block_cipher = None

def get_pandas_path():
    import pandas
    pandas_path = pandas.__path__[0]
    return pandas_path

a = Analysis(['Hello.py'],
         pathex=['C:\\ScriptsThatRequirePandas'],
         binaries=None,
         datas=None,
         hiddenimports=[],
         hookspath=None,
         runtime_hooks=None,
         excludes=None,
         win_no_prefer_redirects=None,
         win_private_assemblies=None,
         cipher=block_cipher)

dict_tree = Tree(get_pandas_path(), prefix='pandas', excludes=["*.pyc"])
a.datas += dict_tree
a.binaries = filter(lambda x: 'pandas' not in x[0], a.binaries)

pyz = PYZ(a.pure, a.zipped_data,
         cipher=block_cipher)
exe = EXE(pyz,
      a.scripts,
      exclude_binaries=True,
      name="Hello",
      debug=False,
      strip=None,
      upx=True,
      console=True )
scoll = COLLECT(exe,
           a.binaries,
           a.zipfiles,
           a.datas,
           strip=None,
           upx=True,
           name="Hello")

I then ran:

$pyinstaller Hello.spec --onefile

from the command prompt and got the ‘hello world’ message I expected. I still don’t completely understand why this is necessary. I have a custom build of pandas – which is hooked into the MKL libraries – but it isn’t clear to me that this is causing the run failure.

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