Exception: Cannot find PyQt5 plugin directories when using Pyinstaller despite PyQt5 not even being used










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A month ago I solved my applcation freezing issues for Python 2.7 as you can see here. I have since adapted my code to python 3.5 (using Anaconda) and it appears to be working. couldn't get pyinstaller working with Anaconda so switched to trying to generate an .exe using the standard Python 3.5 compiler. I am using the same settings as in the link above (pyinstaller --additional-hooks-dir=. --clean --win-private-assemblies pipegui.py), except I get the following error message instead:



`Exception: Cannot find PyQt5 plugin directories`


This may be related? Except I'm using Pyinstaller and I don't have a setup.py so don't know how I can make use of the solution there, if at all



I find this error message bizarre because I am not using PyQt5, but PyQt4. Here is the full output:



C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptPycharmProjectsMesoscale-Brain-Explorersrc>pyinstaller --additional-hooks-dir=. --clean --win-private-assemblies pipegui.py
62 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.2
62 INFO: Python: 3.5.0
62 INFO: Platform: Windows-10.0.14393
62 INFO: wrote C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptPycharmProjectsMesoscale-Brain-Explorersrcpipegui.spec
62 INFO: UPX is not available.
62 INFO: Removing temporary files and cleaning cache in C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptAppDataRoamingpyinstaller
62 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths
['C:\Users\Cornelis Dirk Haupt\PycharmProjects\Mesoscale-Brain-Explorer',
'C:\Users\Cornelis Dirk '
'Haupt\PycharmProjects\Mesoscale-Brain-Explorer\src']
62 INFO: checking Analysis
62 INFO: Building Analysis because out00-Analysis.toc is non existent
62 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph...
62 INFO: Initializing module graph hooks...
62 INFO: Analyzing base_library.zip ...
1430 INFO: running Analysis out00-Analysis.toc
1727 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
return _getImports_pe(pth)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
1742 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
return _getImports_pe(pth)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
1742 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
return _getImports_pe(pth)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
1758 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
return _getImports_pe(pth)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
1758 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
return _getImports_pe(pth)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
1774 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
return _getImports_pe(pth)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
1774 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
return _getImports_pe(pth)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
1774 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
return _getImports_pe(pth)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
1789 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
return _getImports_pe(pth)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
1789 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
return _getImports_pe(pth)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
1789 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
return _getImports_pe(pth)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
1805 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
return _getImports_pe(pth)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
1805 INFO: Caching module hooks...
1805 INFO: Analyzing C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptPycharmProjectsMesoscale-Brain-Explorersrcpipegui.py
1992 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook distutils
2055 INFO: Processing pre-safe import module hook six.moves
3181 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook site
3181 INFO: site: retargeting to fake-dir 'c:\users\cornelis dirk haupt\appdata\local\programs\python\python35\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\fake-modules'
4298 INFO: Processing pre-safe import module hook win32com
9975 INFO: Loading module hooks...
9975 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-_tkinter.py"...
10121 INFO: checking Tree
10121 INFO: Building Tree because out00-Tree.toc is non existent
10122 INFO: Building Tree out00-Tree.toc
10184 INFO: checking Tree
10184 INFO: Building Tree because out01-Tree.toc is non existent
10185 INFO: Building Tree out01-Tree.toc
10198 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-matplotlib.py"...
10404 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pywintypes.py"...
10526 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-xml.py"...
10526 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pydoc.py"...
10527 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-scipy.linalg.py"...
10527 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-scipy.sparse.csgraph.py"...
10529 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-plugins.py"...
10721 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook PyQt4.uic.port_v3
10726 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook PyQt4.uic.port_v2
12402 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-OpenGL.py"...
12583 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt4.QtGui.py"...
12802 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-encodings.py"...
12807 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt4.uic.py"...
12812 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt5.QtWidgets.py"...
12813 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-xml.etree.cElementTree.py"...
12813 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-setuptools.py"...
12814 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-scipy.special._ufuncs.py"...
12814 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt5.QtCore.py"...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35librunpy.py", line 170, in _run_module_as_main
"__main__", mod_spec)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35librunpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython35Scriptspyinstaller.exe__main__.py", line 9, in <module>
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstaller__main__.py", line 90, in run
run_build(pyi_config, spec_file, **vars(args))
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstaller__main__.py", line 46, in run_build
PyInstaller.building.build_main.main(pyi_config, spec_file, **kwargs)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 788, in main
build(specfile, kw.get('distpath'), kw.get('workpath'), kw.get('clean_build'))
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 734, in build
exec(text, spec_namespace)
File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 212, in __init__
self.__postinit__()
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingdatastruct.py", line 178, in __postinit__
self.assemble()
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 470, in assemble
module_hook.post_graph()
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingimphook.py", line 409, in post_graph
self._load_hook_module()
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingimphook.py", line 376, in _load_hook_module
self.hook_module_name, self.hook_filename)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallercompat.py", line 725, in importlib_load_source
return mod_loader.load_module()
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 385, in _check_name_wrapper
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 806, in load_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 665, in load_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 268, in _load_module_shim
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 693, in _load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 673, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 662, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerhookshook-PyQt5.QtCore.py", line 15, in <module>
binaries = qt_plugins_binaries('codecs', namespace='PyQt5')
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerutilshooksqt.py", line 64, in qt_plugins_binaries
pdir = qt_plugins_dir(namespace=namespace)
File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerutilshooksqt.py", line 38, in qt_plugins_dir
raise Exception('Cannot find 0 plugin directories'.format(namespace))
Exception: Cannot find PyQt5 plugin directories


I will say I also have no clue what to make of the TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'This may be related? I only use binary mode with pickle a handful of times as far as I can tell this is my only usage:



pickle.dump( roiState, open( fileName, "wb" ) )
roiState = pickle.load(open(fileName, "rb"))


I don't have any errors when I run the application, only getting these errors when trying to generate an .exe using pyinstaller. Why?



Note also that Anaconda3 does pop up in the traceback above (why is it looking for binaries there?) but I:



  1. Uninstalled pyinstaller from Anaconda

  2. Am using the standard Python 3.5 (64-bit) compiler

Only thing I can think of that may be the culprit is that I'm no longer using the developer version of Pyinstaller (it just flat does not run in Python 3.5). I had to use the developer version to solve my freezing issue here when my code was written for python 2.7










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    A month ago I solved my applcation freezing issues for Python 2.7 as you can see here. I have since adapted my code to python 3.5 (using Anaconda) and it appears to be working. couldn't get pyinstaller working with Anaconda so switched to trying to generate an .exe using the standard Python 3.5 compiler. I am using the same settings as in the link above (pyinstaller --additional-hooks-dir=. --clean --win-private-assemblies pipegui.py), except I get the following error message instead:



    `Exception: Cannot find PyQt5 plugin directories`


    This may be related? Except I'm using Pyinstaller and I don't have a setup.py so don't know how I can make use of the solution there, if at all



    I find this error message bizarre because I am not using PyQt5, but PyQt4. Here is the full output:



    C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptPycharmProjectsMesoscale-Brain-Explorersrc>pyinstaller --additional-hooks-dir=. --clean --win-private-assemblies pipegui.py
    62 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.2
    62 INFO: Python: 3.5.0
    62 INFO: Platform: Windows-10.0.14393
    62 INFO: wrote C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptPycharmProjectsMesoscale-Brain-Explorersrcpipegui.spec
    62 INFO: UPX is not available.
    62 INFO: Removing temporary files and cleaning cache in C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptAppDataRoamingpyinstaller
    62 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths
    ['C:\Users\Cornelis Dirk Haupt\PycharmProjects\Mesoscale-Brain-Explorer',
    'C:\Users\Cornelis Dirk '
    'Haupt\PycharmProjects\Mesoscale-Brain-Explorer\src']
    62 INFO: checking Analysis
    62 INFO: Building Analysis because out00-Analysis.toc is non existent
    62 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph...
    62 INFO: Initializing module graph hooks...
    62 INFO: Analyzing base_library.zip ...
    1430 INFO: running Analysis out00-Analysis.toc
    1727 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
    return _getImports_pe(pth)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
    dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
    TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
    1742 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
    return _getImports_pe(pth)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
    dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
    TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
    1742 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
    return _getImports_pe(pth)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
    dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
    TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
    1758 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
    return _getImports_pe(pth)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
    dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
    TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
    1758 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
    return _getImports_pe(pth)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
    dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
    TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
    1774 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
    return _getImports_pe(pth)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
    dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
    TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
    1774 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
    return _getImports_pe(pth)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
    dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
    TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
    1774 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
    return _getImports_pe(pth)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
    dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
    TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
    1789 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
    return _getImports_pe(pth)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
    dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
    TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
    1789 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
    return _getImports_pe(pth)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
    dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
    TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
    1789 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
    return _getImports_pe(pth)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
    dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
    TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
    1805 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
    return _getImports_pe(pth)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
    dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
    TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
    1805 INFO: Caching module hooks...
    1805 INFO: Analyzing C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptPycharmProjectsMesoscale-Brain-Explorersrcpipegui.py
    1992 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook distutils
    2055 INFO: Processing pre-safe import module hook six.moves
    3181 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook site
    3181 INFO: site: retargeting to fake-dir 'c:\users\cornelis dirk haupt\appdata\local\programs\python\python35\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\fake-modules'
    4298 INFO: Processing pre-safe import module hook win32com
    9975 INFO: Loading module hooks...
    9975 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-_tkinter.py"...
    10121 INFO: checking Tree
    10121 INFO: Building Tree because out00-Tree.toc is non existent
    10122 INFO: Building Tree out00-Tree.toc
    10184 INFO: checking Tree
    10184 INFO: Building Tree because out01-Tree.toc is non existent
    10185 INFO: Building Tree out01-Tree.toc
    10198 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-matplotlib.py"...
    10404 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pywintypes.py"...
    10526 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-xml.py"...
    10526 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pydoc.py"...
    10527 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-scipy.linalg.py"...
    10527 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-scipy.sparse.csgraph.py"...
    10529 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-plugins.py"...
    10721 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook PyQt4.uic.port_v3
    10726 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook PyQt4.uic.port_v2
    12402 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-OpenGL.py"...
    12583 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt4.QtGui.py"...
    12802 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-encodings.py"...
    12807 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt4.uic.py"...
    12812 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt5.QtWidgets.py"...
    12813 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-xml.etree.cElementTree.py"...
    12813 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-setuptools.py"...
    12814 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-scipy.special._ufuncs.py"...
    12814 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt5.QtCore.py"...
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
    ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35librunpy.py", line 170, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35librunpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
    File "C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython35Scriptspyinstaller.exe__main__.py", line 9, in <module>
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstaller__main__.py", line 90, in run
    run_build(pyi_config, spec_file, **vars(args))
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstaller__main__.py", line 46, in run_build
    PyInstaller.building.build_main.main(pyi_config, spec_file, **kwargs)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 788, in main
    build(specfile, kw.get('distpath'), kw.get('workpath'), kw.get('clean_build'))
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 734, in build
    exec(text, spec_namespace)
    File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 212, in __init__
    self.__postinit__()
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingdatastruct.py", line 178, in __postinit__
    self.assemble()
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 470, in assemble
    module_hook.post_graph()
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingimphook.py", line 409, in post_graph
    self._load_hook_module()
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingimphook.py", line 376, in _load_hook_module
    self.hook_module_name, self.hook_filename)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallercompat.py", line 725, in importlib_load_source
    return mod_loader.load_module()
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 385, in _check_name_wrapper
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 806, in load_module
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 665, in load_module
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 268, in _load_module_shim
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 693, in _load
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 673, in _load_unlocked
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 662, in exec_module
    File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerhookshook-PyQt5.QtCore.py", line 15, in <module>
    binaries = qt_plugins_binaries('codecs', namespace='PyQt5')
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerutilshooksqt.py", line 64, in qt_plugins_binaries
    pdir = qt_plugins_dir(namespace=namespace)
    File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerutilshooksqt.py", line 38, in qt_plugins_dir
    raise Exception('Cannot find 0 plugin directories'.format(namespace))
    Exception: Cannot find PyQt5 plugin directories


    I will say I also have no clue what to make of the TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'This may be related? I only use binary mode with pickle a handful of times as far as I can tell this is my only usage:



    pickle.dump( roiState, open( fileName, "wb" ) )
    roiState = pickle.load(open(fileName, "rb"))


    I don't have any errors when I run the application, only getting these errors when trying to generate an .exe using pyinstaller. Why?



    Note also that Anaconda3 does pop up in the traceback above (why is it looking for binaries there?) but I:



    1. Uninstalled pyinstaller from Anaconda

    2. Am using the standard Python 3.5 (64-bit) compiler

    Only thing I can think of that may be the culprit is that I'm no longer using the developer version of Pyinstaller (it just flat does not run in Python 3.5). I had to use the developer version to solve my freezing issue here when my code was written for python 2.7










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      A month ago I solved my applcation freezing issues for Python 2.7 as you can see here. I have since adapted my code to python 3.5 (using Anaconda) and it appears to be working. couldn't get pyinstaller working with Anaconda so switched to trying to generate an .exe using the standard Python 3.5 compiler. I am using the same settings as in the link above (pyinstaller --additional-hooks-dir=. --clean --win-private-assemblies pipegui.py), except I get the following error message instead:



      `Exception: Cannot find PyQt5 plugin directories`


      This may be related? Except I'm using Pyinstaller and I don't have a setup.py so don't know how I can make use of the solution there, if at all



      I find this error message bizarre because I am not using PyQt5, but PyQt4. Here is the full output:



      C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptPycharmProjectsMesoscale-Brain-Explorersrc>pyinstaller --additional-hooks-dir=. --clean --win-private-assemblies pipegui.py
      62 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.2
      62 INFO: Python: 3.5.0
      62 INFO: Platform: Windows-10.0.14393
      62 INFO: wrote C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptPycharmProjectsMesoscale-Brain-Explorersrcpipegui.spec
      62 INFO: UPX is not available.
      62 INFO: Removing temporary files and cleaning cache in C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptAppDataRoamingpyinstaller
      62 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths
      ['C:\Users\Cornelis Dirk Haupt\PycharmProjects\Mesoscale-Brain-Explorer',
      'C:\Users\Cornelis Dirk '
      'Haupt\PycharmProjects\Mesoscale-Brain-Explorer\src']
      62 INFO: checking Analysis
      62 INFO: Building Analysis because out00-Analysis.toc is non existent
      62 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph...
      62 INFO: Initializing module graph hooks...
      62 INFO: Analyzing base_library.zip ...
      1430 INFO: running Analysis out00-Analysis.toc
      1727 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1742 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1742 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1758 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1758 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1774 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1774 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1774 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1789 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1789 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1789 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1805 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1805 INFO: Caching module hooks...
      1805 INFO: Analyzing C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptPycharmProjectsMesoscale-Brain-Explorersrcpipegui.py
      1992 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook distutils
      2055 INFO: Processing pre-safe import module hook six.moves
      3181 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook site
      3181 INFO: site: retargeting to fake-dir 'c:\users\cornelis dirk haupt\appdata\local\programs\python\python35\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\fake-modules'
      4298 INFO: Processing pre-safe import module hook win32com
      9975 INFO: Loading module hooks...
      9975 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-_tkinter.py"...
      10121 INFO: checking Tree
      10121 INFO: Building Tree because out00-Tree.toc is non existent
      10122 INFO: Building Tree out00-Tree.toc
      10184 INFO: checking Tree
      10184 INFO: Building Tree because out01-Tree.toc is non existent
      10185 INFO: Building Tree out01-Tree.toc
      10198 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-matplotlib.py"...
      10404 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pywintypes.py"...
      10526 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-xml.py"...
      10526 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pydoc.py"...
      10527 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-scipy.linalg.py"...
      10527 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-scipy.sparse.csgraph.py"...
      10529 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-plugins.py"...
      10721 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook PyQt4.uic.port_v3
      10726 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook PyQt4.uic.port_v2
      12402 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-OpenGL.py"...
      12583 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt4.QtGui.py"...
      12802 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-encodings.py"...
      12807 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt4.uic.py"...
      12812 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt5.QtWidgets.py"...
      12813 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-xml.etree.cElementTree.py"...
      12813 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-setuptools.py"...
      12814 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-scipy.special._ufuncs.py"...
      12814 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt5.QtCore.py"...
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
      ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35librunpy.py", line 170, in _run_module_as_main
      "__main__", mod_spec)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35librunpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
      exec(code, run_globals)
      File "C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython35Scriptspyinstaller.exe__main__.py", line 9, in <module>
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstaller__main__.py", line 90, in run
      run_build(pyi_config, spec_file, **vars(args))
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstaller__main__.py", line 46, in run_build
      PyInstaller.building.build_main.main(pyi_config, spec_file, **kwargs)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 788, in main
      build(specfile, kw.get('distpath'), kw.get('workpath'), kw.get('clean_build'))
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 734, in build
      exec(text, spec_namespace)
      File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 212, in __init__
      self.__postinit__()
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingdatastruct.py", line 178, in __postinit__
      self.assemble()
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 470, in assemble
      module_hook.post_graph()
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingimphook.py", line 409, in post_graph
      self._load_hook_module()
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingimphook.py", line 376, in _load_hook_module
      self.hook_module_name, self.hook_filename)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallercompat.py", line 725, in importlib_load_source
      return mod_loader.load_module()
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 385, in _check_name_wrapper
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 806, in load_module
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 665, in load_module
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 268, in _load_module_shim
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 693, in _load
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 673, in _load_unlocked
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 662, in exec_module
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerhookshook-PyQt5.QtCore.py", line 15, in <module>
      binaries = qt_plugins_binaries('codecs', namespace='PyQt5')
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerutilshooksqt.py", line 64, in qt_plugins_binaries
      pdir = qt_plugins_dir(namespace=namespace)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerutilshooksqt.py", line 38, in qt_plugins_dir
      raise Exception('Cannot find 0 plugin directories'.format(namespace))
      Exception: Cannot find PyQt5 plugin directories


      I will say I also have no clue what to make of the TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'This may be related? I only use binary mode with pickle a handful of times as far as I can tell this is my only usage:



      pickle.dump( roiState, open( fileName, "wb" ) )
      roiState = pickle.load(open(fileName, "rb"))


      I don't have any errors when I run the application, only getting these errors when trying to generate an .exe using pyinstaller. Why?



      Note also that Anaconda3 does pop up in the traceback above (why is it looking for binaries there?) but I:



      1. Uninstalled pyinstaller from Anaconda

      2. Am using the standard Python 3.5 (64-bit) compiler

      Only thing I can think of that may be the culprit is that I'm no longer using the developer version of Pyinstaller (it just flat does not run in Python 3.5). I had to use the developer version to solve my freezing issue here when my code was written for python 2.7










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      A month ago I solved my applcation freezing issues for Python 2.7 as you can see here. I have since adapted my code to python 3.5 (using Anaconda) and it appears to be working. couldn't get pyinstaller working with Anaconda so switched to trying to generate an .exe using the standard Python 3.5 compiler. I am using the same settings as in the link above (pyinstaller --additional-hooks-dir=. --clean --win-private-assemblies pipegui.py), except I get the following error message instead:



      `Exception: Cannot find PyQt5 plugin directories`


      This may be related? Except I'm using Pyinstaller and I don't have a setup.py so don't know how I can make use of the solution there, if at all



      I find this error message bizarre because I am not using PyQt5, but PyQt4. Here is the full output:



      C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptPycharmProjectsMesoscale-Brain-Explorersrc>pyinstaller --additional-hooks-dir=. --clean --win-private-assemblies pipegui.py
      62 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.2
      62 INFO: Python: 3.5.0
      62 INFO: Platform: Windows-10.0.14393
      62 INFO: wrote C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptPycharmProjectsMesoscale-Brain-Explorersrcpipegui.spec
      62 INFO: UPX is not available.
      62 INFO: Removing temporary files and cleaning cache in C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptAppDataRoamingpyinstaller
      62 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths
      ['C:\Users\Cornelis Dirk Haupt\PycharmProjects\Mesoscale-Brain-Explorer',
      'C:\Users\Cornelis Dirk '
      'Haupt\PycharmProjects\Mesoscale-Brain-Explorer\src']
      62 INFO: checking Analysis
      62 INFO: Building Analysis because out00-Analysis.toc is non existent
      62 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph...
      62 INFO: Initializing module graph hooks...
      62 INFO: Analyzing base_library.zip ...
      1430 INFO: running Analysis out00-Analysis.toc
      1727 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1742 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1742 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1758 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1758 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1774 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1774 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1774 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1789 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1789 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1789 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1805 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:Anaconda3api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
      return _getImports_pe(pth)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerdependbindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
      dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
      TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
      1805 INFO: Caching module hooks...
      1805 INFO: Analyzing C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptPycharmProjectsMesoscale-Brain-Explorersrcpipegui.py
      1992 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook distutils
      2055 INFO: Processing pre-safe import module hook six.moves
      3181 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook site
      3181 INFO: site: retargeting to fake-dir 'c:\users\cornelis dirk haupt\appdata\local\programs\python\python35\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\fake-modules'
      4298 INFO: Processing pre-safe import module hook win32com
      9975 INFO: Loading module hooks...
      9975 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-_tkinter.py"...
      10121 INFO: checking Tree
      10121 INFO: Building Tree because out00-Tree.toc is non existent
      10122 INFO: Building Tree out00-Tree.toc
      10184 INFO: checking Tree
      10184 INFO: Building Tree because out01-Tree.toc is non existent
      10185 INFO: Building Tree out01-Tree.toc
      10198 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-matplotlib.py"...
      10404 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pywintypes.py"...
      10526 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-xml.py"...
      10526 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-pydoc.py"...
      10527 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-scipy.linalg.py"...
      10527 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-scipy.sparse.csgraph.py"...
      10529 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-plugins.py"...
      10721 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook PyQt4.uic.port_v3
      10726 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook PyQt4.uic.port_v2
      12402 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-OpenGL.py"...
      12583 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt4.QtGui.py"...
      12802 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-encodings.py"...
      12807 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt4.uic.py"...
      12812 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt5.QtWidgets.py"...
      12813 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-xml.etree.cElementTree.py"...
      12813 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-setuptools.py"...
      12814 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-scipy.special._ufuncs.py"...
      12814 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-PyQt5.QtCore.py"...
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
      ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified procedure could not be found.
      Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35librunpy.py", line 170, in _run_module_as_main
      "__main__", mod_spec)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35librunpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
      exec(code, run_globals)
      File "C:UsersCornelis Dirk HauptAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython35Scriptspyinstaller.exe__main__.py", line 9, in <module>
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstaller__main__.py", line 90, in run
      run_build(pyi_config, spec_file, **vars(args))
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstaller__main__.py", line 46, in run_build
      PyInstaller.building.build_main.main(pyi_config, spec_file, **kwargs)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 788, in main
      build(specfile, kw.get('distpath'), kw.get('workpath'), kw.get('clean_build'))
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 734, in build
      exec(text, spec_namespace)
      File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 212, in __init__
      self.__postinit__()
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingdatastruct.py", line 178, in __postinit__
      self.assemble()
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingbuild_main.py", line 470, in assemble
      module_hook.post_graph()
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingimphook.py", line 409, in post_graph
      self._load_hook_module()
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerbuildingimphook.py", line 376, in _load_hook_module
      self.hook_module_name, self.hook_filename)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallercompat.py", line 725, in importlib_load_source
      return mod_loader.load_module()
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 385, in _check_name_wrapper
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 806, in load_module
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 665, in load_module
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 268, in _load_module_shim
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 693, in _load
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 673, in _load_unlocked
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 662, in exec_module
      File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerhookshook-PyQt5.QtCore.py", line 15, in <module>
      binaries = qt_plugins_binaries('codecs', namespace='PyQt5')
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerutilshooksqt.py", line 64, in qt_plugins_binaries
      pdir = qt_plugins_dir(namespace=namespace)
      File "c:userscornelis dirk hauptappdatalocalprogramspythonpython35libsite-packagesPyInstallerutilshooksqt.py", line 38, in qt_plugins_dir
      raise Exception('Cannot find 0 plugin directories'.format(namespace))
      Exception: Cannot find PyQt5 plugin directories


      I will say I also have no clue what to make of the TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'This may be related? I only use binary mode with pickle a handful of times as far as I can tell this is my only usage:



      pickle.dump( roiState, open( fileName, "wb" ) )
      roiState = pickle.load(open(fileName, "rb"))


      I don't have any errors when I run the application, only getting these errors when trying to generate an .exe using pyinstaller. Why?



      Note also that Anaconda3 does pop up in the traceback above (why is it looking for binaries there?) but I:



      1. Uninstalled pyinstaller from Anaconda

      2. Am using the standard Python 3.5 (64-bit) compiler

      Only thing I can think of that may be the culprit is that I'm no longer using the developer version of Pyinstaller (it just flat does not run in Python 3.5). I had to use the developer version to solve my freezing issue here when my code was written for python 2.7







      python python-2.7 python-3.x pyinstaller






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          I managed to fix the same problem I encountered (conda 4.5.4, pyinstaller 3.4) without uninstalling conda:



          pip install PyQt5


          conda already installed PyQt when I used conda install jupyter seaborn. Interestingly, using conda install PyQt5 does not fix my problem. I don't know why. In any case I hope this may help someone out there.






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          • To my understanding, the issue with conda is like this. If it is not available under current environment, it will look into base environment. So, if we install it with pip, then it will ensure correct environment is being used.

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          [specifically for an anacodna installation] I had the same problem, but it got fixed when I updated anaconda.
          From the Anaconda prompt: conda update anaconda. This updates several packages including pyqt






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          • In my case everything gets updated except PyQT :(

            – Shalini Baranwal
            2 days ago


















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          Uninstall Anaconda and everything works... I conclude that you simply cannot have Anaconda installed and use the standard Python 3.5 compiler at the same time if you're using Pyinstaller. Maybe this is related.



          This is not the first time that uninstalling Anaconda appears to solve my issues... If I should report this issue somewhere please comment below. I don't know where.






          share|improve this answer

























          • To my understanding, the issue with conda is like this. If it is not available under current environment, it will look into base environment.

            – Ajeeb.K.P
            Nov 18 '18 at 6:08


















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          I think there is an issue with the current version of pyinstaller. I uninstalled the default version.



          pip uninstall pyinstaller



          and installed the latest trial version



          pip install https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/archive/develop.zip



          and then it worked for me.



          More information here: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/3938






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            I managed to fix the same problem I encountered (conda 4.5.4, pyinstaller 3.4) without uninstalling conda:



            pip install PyQt5


            conda already installed PyQt when I used conda install jupyter seaborn. Interestingly, using conda install PyQt5 does not fix my problem. I don't know why. In any case I hope this may help someone out there.






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            • To my understanding, the issue with conda is like this. If it is not available under current environment, it will look into base environment. So, if we install it with pip, then it will ensure correct environment is being used.

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              Nov 18 '18 at 6:09















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            I managed to fix the same problem I encountered (conda 4.5.4, pyinstaller 3.4) without uninstalling conda:



            pip install PyQt5


            conda already installed PyQt when I used conda install jupyter seaborn. Interestingly, using conda install PyQt5 does not fix my problem. I don't know why. In any case I hope this may help someone out there.






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            • To my understanding, the issue with conda is like this. If it is not available under current environment, it will look into base environment. So, if we install it with pip, then it will ensure correct environment is being used.

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            I managed to fix the same problem I encountered (conda 4.5.4, pyinstaller 3.4) without uninstalling conda:



            pip install PyQt5


            conda already installed PyQt when I used conda install jupyter seaborn. Interestingly, using conda install PyQt5 does not fix my problem. I don't know why. In any case I hope this may help someone out there.






            share|improve this answer















            I managed to fix the same problem I encountered (conda 4.5.4, pyinstaller 3.4) without uninstalling conda:



            pip install PyQt5


            conda already installed PyQt when I used conda install jupyter seaborn. Interestingly, using conda install PyQt5 does not fix my problem. I don't know why. In any case I hope this may help someone out there.







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              Nov 18 '18 at 6:09

















            • To my understanding, the issue with conda is like this. If it is not available under current environment, it will look into base environment. So, if we install it with pip, then it will ensure correct environment is being used.

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            To my understanding, the issue with conda is like this. If it is not available under current environment, it will look into base environment. So, if we install it with pip, then it will ensure correct environment is being used.

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            Nov 18 '18 at 6:09





            To my understanding, the issue with conda is like this. If it is not available under current environment, it will look into base environment. So, if we install it with pip, then it will ensure correct environment is being used.

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            [specifically for an anacodna installation] I had the same problem, but it got fixed when I updated anaconda.
            From the Anaconda prompt: conda update anaconda. This updates several packages including pyqt






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            [specifically for an anacodna installation] I had the same problem, but it got fixed when I updated anaconda.
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            From the Anaconda prompt: conda update anaconda. This updates several packages including pyqt






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            In my case everything gets updated except PyQT :(

            – Shalini Baranwal
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            In my case everything gets updated except PyQT :(

            – Shalini Baranwal
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            Uninstall Anaconda and everything works... I conclude that you simply cannot have Anaconda installed and use the standard Python 3.5 compiler at the same time if you're using Pyinstaller. Maybe this is related.



            This is not the first time that uninstalling Anaconda appears to solve my issues... If I should report this issue somewhere please comment below. I don't know where.






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            • To my understanding, the issue with conda is like this. If it is not available under current environment, it will look into base environment.

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            Uninstall Anaconda and everything works... I conclude that you simply cannot have Anaconda installed and use the standard Python 3.5 compiler at the same time if you're using Pyinstaller. Maybe this is related.



            This is not the first time that uninstalling Anaconda appears to solve my issues... If I should report this issue somewhere please comment below. I don't know where.






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            • To my understanding, the issue with conda is like this. If it is not available under current environment, it will look into base environment.

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            Uninstall Anaconda and everything works... I conclude that you simply cannot have Anaconda installed and use the standard Python 3.5 compiler at the same time if you're using Pyinstaller. Maybe this is related.



            This is not the first time that uninstalling Anaconda appears to solve my issues... If I should report this issue somewhere please comment below. I don't know where.






            share|improve this answer















            Uninstall Anaconda and everything works... I conclude that you simply cannot have Anaconda installed and use the standard Python 3.5 compiler at the same time if you're using Pyinstaller. Maybe this is related.



            This is not the first time that uninstalling Anaconda appears to solve my issues... If I should report this issue somewhere please comment below. I don't know where.







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              – Ajeeb.K.P
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            • To my understanding, the issue with conda is like this. If it is not available under current environment, it will look into base environment.

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            To my understanding, the issue with conda is like this. If it is not available under current environment, it will look into base environment.

            – Ajeeb.K.P
            Nov 18 '18 at 6:08





            To my understanding, the issue with conda is like this. If it is not available under current environment, it will look into base environment.

            – Ajeeb.K.P
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            I think there is an issue with the current version of pyinstaller. I uninstalled the default version.



            pip uninstall pyinstaller



            and installed the latest trial version



            pip install https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/archive/develop.zip



            and then it worked for me.



            More information here: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/3938






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              I think there is an issue with the current version of pyinstaller. I uninstalled the default version.



              pip uninstall pyinstaller



              and installed the latest trial version



              pip install https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/archive/develop.zip



              and then it worked for me.



              More information here: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/3938






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                I think there is an issue with the current version of pyinstaller. I uninstalled the default version.



                pip uninstall pyinstaller



                and installed the latest trial version



                pip install https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/archive/develop.zip



                and then it worked for me.



                More information here: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/3938






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                I think there is an issue with the current version of pyinstaller. I uninstalled the default version.



                pip uninstall pyinstaller



                and installed the latest trial version



                pip install https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/archive/develop.zip



                and then it worked for me.



                More information here: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/3938







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