Pyinstaller compile to exe

Question

I am trying to compile a Kivy application to a windows exe, but I keep receiving an attribute error: AttributeError: \'str\' object has no attribute \'items\'

I have

Answer 1

pip install --force-reinstall --no-binary :all: pyinstaller

Did the trick for me but only when running it into a command prompt as administrator....(Win10)

Answer 2

I had a similar error when trying to compile my script to a macho using pyinstaller. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling six and setuptools as suggested elsewhere to no effect. I noticed another error regarding enum and tried uninstalling enum34 via pip. This did it.

pip uninstall enum34

Answer 3

If you are still having this issue, here is what solved it for me:

pip install --upgrade setuptools

I've tried installing six (in my case, it wasn't already installed), but since it seems that it is looking for _vendor.six and not just six, that didn't solve it. Somehow, upgrading setuptools solves it.

Answer 4

Things to check:

• Check the output above the stated error. Sometimes some moudles required might not have been installed. Make sure that all modules are installed and no prior errors.
  

• Upgrade setup tools using command :

  pip install --upgrade setuptools
  

• Unistall and re-install modules like six, setuptools, pyinstaller also helps in some cases.
  

Answer 5

I have solved this by installing some dependencies,

pip install --force-reinstall --no-binary :all: pyinstaller

Here is the source issue link

Answer 6

I had similar error output from Pyinstaller with a wxPython project. It was solved it by upgrading setuptools (from 38.5.1 to 39.0.2).