Actually, this whole thing is a matplotlib and not a wxpython issue, 
because they are not using the hasattr(sys, 'frozen') conditional in 
their wx backend when importing wxversion 
(matplotlib\backends\backen_wx.py, line 114).

Regards,

Florian Höch

Jason Kenney schrieb:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Giovanni Bajo <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     On 8/25/2009 8:32 PM, Jason Kenney wrote:
> 
>      > Thanks for the hints.  I tracked down the error message to
>     wxversion.py
>      > (installed in the site-packages dir).  In the preamble, it
>     mentions not
>      > to use it when bundling your files for a stand-alone app.  I guess
>      > wxPython must use wxversion by default and it looks for wx.pth?
>      In any
>      > event, I added
>     C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode\wxPython
>      > to my PYTHONPATH and now the built exe runs with no problems.
> 
>     Great. I think we should try adding a hook to avoid this problem to
>     happen for other people as well.
> 
>     Can you try adding a hook file to the "hooks" directory called
>     "hook-wxversion.py", and make it raise a RuntimeError() exception
>     describing the problem?
> 
>     Thanks!
> 
> 
> I added the hook and found that it gets triggered whether or not 
> PYTHONPATH has the wxPython directory in it.  Here is the full comment 
> from wxversion.py:
> 
> "NOTE: If you are making a 'bundle' of your application with a tool
> like py2exe then you should *not* use the wxversion module since it
> looks at the filesystem for the directories on sys.path, it will fail
> in a bundled environment.  Instead you should simply ensure that the
> version of wxPython that you want is found by default on the sys.path
> when making the bundled version by setting PYTHONPATH.  Then that
> version will be included in your bundle and your app will work as
> expected.  Py2exe and the others usually have a way to tell at runtime
> if they are running from a bundle or running raw, so you can check
> that and only use wxversion if needed.  For example, for py2exe::
> 
>     if not hasattr(sys, 'frozen'):
>         import wxversion
>         wxversion.select('2.5')
>     import wx
> 
> More documentation on wxversion and multi-version installs can be
> found at: http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/MultiVersionInstalls";
> 
> The applicable section from that link is at 
> http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/MultiVersionInstalls#head-39f9ba136f6882f69af127cb8ebf5551ddf9a208
> 
> Maybe there's another way to handle the hook to implement their 
> suggestions?  I'm getting a bit out of my depth here :)
> 
> Jason
> 
> > 


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