PyInstaller: ValueError: Module file ... is missing

Question

To protect my code, I convert test.py to test.pyd.

test.py and test.pyd are now in the same folder.

Then I use pyinstaller -F test.py to get exe. As far as I know, pyd has higer priority than py, so pyinstaller will try to get code from test.pyd, right?

Anyway, I got this error after using the above command: ValueError: Module file .../test.py is missing .

If there is only test.py in the folder, the command works just fine. So why it shows this error when test.pyd is also in the folder...and how to solve this...

PyInstaller==3.4 Python==3.6.8

Answer 1

This happened to me when I tried pyinstaller entrypoint.spec based on entrypoint.py , when I discovered I had accidentally created the file entrypoint.pyd in the same folder. Removing the pyd file resolved the issue.