Python: Excluding Modules Pyinstaller

by

Just to summarise the options here as I use them.

PyInstaller TOC’s – are, as the documentation says:

A TOC appears to be a list of tuples of the form (name, path,
typecode). In fact, it’s an ordered set, not a list. A TOC contains no
duplicates, where uniqueness is based on name only.

In otherwords, simply:

a_toc = [('uname1','/path/info','BINARY'),('uname2','/path/to','EXTENSION')...]

So, in your .spec file – once you’ve got the Analysis results of the script – you can then further modify the respective TOC’s by either:

  • For specific files/modules use the difference (-) and intersection (+) operations to modify a TOC. *

  • For adding/removing lists of files/modules iterate over the the TOC and compare with pattern matching code.

(* As an aside, for the difference to work it seems you must explicitly cast to TOC() and note that since it is only the name that uniquely defines the element of the set, you only need to specify that – hence ('sqlite3', None, None) etc.)

An illustrative example (taken from a .spec file) is below where – for better or worse – I remove all references to scipy, IPython and zmq; delete specific sqlite, tcl/tk and ssl .DLL’s; insert a missing opencv .DLL; and finally remove all data folders found apart from matplotlib ones…

Whether the resulting Pyinstaller .exe will then work when an .pyc file tries to load an expected .DLL is moot:-/

# Manually remove entire packages...

a.binaries = [x for x in a.binaries if not x[0].startswith("scipy")]

a.binaries = [x for x in a.binaries if not x[0].startswith("IPython")]

a.binaries = [x for x in a.binaries if not x[0].startswith("zmq")]

# Target remove specific ones...

a.binaries = a.binaries - TOC([
 ('sqlite3.dll', None, None),
 ('tcl85.dll', None, None),
 ('tk85.dll', None, None),
 ('_sqlite3', None, None),
 ('_ssl', None, None),
 ('_tkinter', None, None)])

# Add a single missing dll...

a.binaries = a.binaries + [
  ('opencv_ffmpeg245_64.dll', 'C:\\Python27\\opencv_ffmpeg245_64.dll', 'BINARY')]

# Delete everything bar matplotlib data...

a.datas = [x for x in a.datas if
 os.path.dirname(x[1]).startswith("C:\\Python27\\Lib\\site-packages\\matplotlib")]

More Related Contents:

  1. Bundling data files with PyInstaller (–onefile)
  2. Determining application path in a Python EXE generated by pyInstaller
  3. Pyinstaller and –onefile: How to include an image in the exe file
  4. Python – pygame error when executing exe file
  5. Reducing size of pyinstaller exe
  6. Windows- Pyinstaller Error “failed to execute script ” When App Clicked
  7. No module named ‘pandas._libs.tslibs.timedeltas’ in PyInstaller
  8. Pyinstaller is not recognized as internal or external command
  9. PyInstaller and Pandas
  10. Kivy: compiling to a single executable
  11. How do I include files with pyinstaller?
  12. PyInstaller + UI Files – FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
  13. Adding a data file in Pyinstaller using the onefile option
  14. Including a directory using Pyinstaller
  15. Pyinstaller “Failed to execute script pyi_rth_pkgres” and missing packages
  16. Processes stuck in loop with PyInstaller-executable
  17. How to install python application with tkcalendar module by pyinstaller?
  18. Get all modules/packages used by a python project
  19. Pyinstaller with pygame
  20. Pyinstaller setting icons don’t change
  21. How can I create the minimum size executable with pyinstaller?
  22. Why python executable opens new window instance when function by multiprocessing module is called on windows
  23. How to compile all resources into one executable file?
  24. pyinstaller No module named pyinstaller
  25. How to use pyinstaller?
  26. How to install PyInstaller? [closed]
  27. Pyinstaller ; ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘sklearn.utils._cython_blas’
  28. Bundling Data files with PyInstaller 2.1 and MEIPASS error –onefile
  29. Pyinstaller created exe file can not load a keras nn model
  30. Auto updating a python executable generated with pyinstaller

Leave a Comment