pytz timezone object creation fails with pyinstaller

[seahawk1986@…]

Hello, I have problems packing the following code in to one *.exe file: test.py

...
import pytz
mytz = pytz.timezone('Europe/Berlin')
...

Package ist created using

C:\Python25\pyinstaller-1.3\makespec.py -F --icon=icon.ico test.py

C:\Python25\pyinstaller-1.3\Build.py test.spec

pytz is Version 2009u

Warntest.txt shows:

W: delayed  __import__ hack detected at line 0 - pytz (C:\Users\myuser\Documents\Test\pytz\__init__.pyc)

Traceback when program test.exe is run:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 32, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\myuser\Documents\Test\buildtest\out1.pyz/pytz", line 157, in timezone
pytz.UnknownTimeZoneError: 'Europe/Berlin'

Any idea how to prevent this error?

[htgoebel]

This is simply, because pytz needs to have the zoneinfo files bundled.

Thee options: 1) adapt the .spec to include the zonefiles a data files 2) Either use a egg (which should be included as a whole) 3) implement an import hook.

[matysek]

Fixed in latest dev branch.