Why am I getting this ImportError?

Question

I have a tkinter app that I am compiling to an .exe via py2exe.

In the setup file, I have set it to include lxml,

Answer 1

Looks like py2exe doesn't realize it should include the lxml._elementpath module, which is conditionally imported by lxml.etree. You can tell it to include that module explicitly with the includes keyword argument in your setup.py.

setup(
    options={'py2exe': {"includes": ["lxml._elementpath"]}}
)

Answer 2

Py2exe has made documentation of this error on this page: http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/WorkingWithVariousPackagesAndModules

They also offer a working solution.