error while importing py2exe with lxml etree

Question

How do I make py2exe import my etree.pyd in the lxml folder?

When I do

includes = ['lxml.etree']

I get the error: importerror no module named lxml.etree . If I go into the python console and type

from lxml import etree
import lxml
lxml.etree

Both work just fine. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You really shouldn't need to make this explicit; the module-finder should find the dependency and add it automatically—and if it doesn't, and you don't know of a good reason for that, you should debug it (with py2exe.mf as described in the docs) first.

But if you do need this, you're going to need the whole lxml package, not just lxml.etree . So, just replace:

includes = ['lxml.etree']

… with:

packages = ['lxml']

Or, if you want to include just the top level of the package and the etree subpackage—I'm not sure whether that will actually work (either at setup time or at runtime), but it might:

includes = ['lxml', 'lxml.etree']