PySide and PyQt clash when packaging pylab under Windows 7

Question

I tried to package a small script which does some plotting with pylab. I used pyinstaller under Linux without a problem but under Windows 7 I get an error. On a different co

Answer 1

I had a closer look at the pyinstaller documentation and found a solution for pyinstaller. I used the excludes option in the Analysis block of the spec file:

# -*- mode: python -*-
a = Analysis(['test.py'],
         pathex=['C:\\Workspace\\ZLC_python'],
         hiddenimports=[],
         hookspath=None,
         excludes=['PyQt4'],
         runtime_hooks=None)
for d in a.datas:
    if 'pyconfig' in d[0]: 
        a.datas.remove(d)
        break
pyz = PYZ(a.pure)
exe = EXE(pyz,
      a.scripts,
      a.binaries,
      a.zipfiles,
      a.datas,
      name='test.exe',
      debug=False,
      strip=None,
      upx=True,
      console=True )