On 10/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I tried to build the little graphics tool I recently mentioned -- the one
> that makes "edge tiles" -- into an EXE, and got a strange error. The
> program runs fine in IDLE and when run directly by double-clicking the
> source file, but the EXE crashes with the following error (automatically
> placed in a logfile):
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "tile_maker.py", line 98, in ?
> File "tile_maker.py", line 90, in RunDemo
> EOFError: EOF when reading a line
>
> Where the relevant line is just this:
>
> tile1 = raw_input("Image 1 filename (BMP/PNG in same directory)?> ")
>
> In other words the raw_input command is doing something odd in EXE form,
> even before the program is able to display the prompt or accept input. Any
> idea what's going on, or why this error would only appear in the EXE? This
> is a very simple program with no special modules but Pygame.
>
>
My guess is that you used py2exe with the "windows" argument, meaning that
no console is opened - without a console there is no stdin for raw_input to
use. You can instead use the "console" argument in your setup.py, and your
exe will open a console window allowing raw_input to work.
