Pyinstaller Tensorflow bundle fails

Question

Trying to run pyinstaller to compile a tensorflow application on windows. The file get's packaged perfectly, but i end up running into this error when running the resulting exe.

 File "site-packages\astor\__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\_MEI138162\\astor\\VERSION'

I've ensured the astor package is included, and even tried to use the --hiden imports flag, but to no avail.

How can I properly include the astor package with pyinstaller?

Answer 1

You can create "astor" folder in your project. And paste VERSION file from "your env/Lib/site-packages/astor/VERSION".

-- [EDIT] --

On PyInstaller you should add the flag --add-data 'astor:./astor' to add the folder to the project, doesn't seem to need the source, just the VERSION file

Answer 2

I fixed this problem by going in to the astor/ init .py file and changing the two lines you mentioned in your question to:

__version__ = '0.8.1'

parse_file = code_to_ast.parse_file

Pyinstaller worked perfectly after this.

Answer 3

I faced the same problem. My astor package version was 0.8.1. I changed astor version to 0.7.1. It worked like a charm.

Answer 4

I've run into the same issue and here is how I solved it without requiring any manual copy/paste :

In my .spec file, I've added the following lines:

from PyInstaller.utils.hooks import collect_data_files
a.datas += collect_data_files('astor', subdir=None, include_py_files=False)

Explanation

The error pointed to this statement in the site-packages' astor/__init__.py :

with open(os.path.join(ROOT, 'VERSION')) as version_file:
    __version__ = version_file.read().strip()

It seemed that the VERSION file present in the astor package was not being copied by pyinstaller, and therefore not found in the standalone folder produced. Using the collect_data_files() utils function and adding the results to the analysis' datas argument in my .spec file resolved the issue. Detailed info in the docs: https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/hooks.html?highlight=collect_data_files#useful-items-in-pyinstaller-utils-hooks