“maximum recursion depth exceeded” while packaging py file with py2exe

Question

The py2exe worked quite well on the same py file several months ago. But when I tried it again today it failed by reporting a “RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

Answer 1

It works for Pyinstaller

Create a spec file

pyi-makespec options name.py 

Modify this spec by adding to start of file

import sys
sys.setrecursionlimit(5000) # or more

Build the executable file

pyi options name.spec 

Answer 2

I'd try to increase recursion depth limit. Insert at the beginning of your file:

import sys
sys.setrecursionlimit(5000)

Answer 3

This error can also occur when you have Jason path.py installed as described here: http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/PathModul. The solution from this page is to

Just rename

site-packages/path.py to

site-packages/jpath.py 

and make sure also to toggle your imports to

import jpath