Import error when running pyinstaller app

4
votes

I have written a Python app which makes use of:

from PIL import Image

I want to distribute a packed version of this application so that whoever uses it does not need to install all the dependencies.

For that I have used pyinstaller, without much success. I run:

pyinstaller --onefile image_download.py

and it does not complain. However, when I run the application, I get:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 26, in File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyInstaller/loader/pyi_importers.py", line 270, in load_module exec(bytecode, module.dict) File "/home/ic/twitter-project/build/image_download/out00-PYZ.pyz/PIL.PngImagePlugin", line 40, in File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyInstaller/loader/pyi_importers.py", line 270, in load_module exec(bytecode, module.dict) File "/home/ic/twitter-project/build/image_download/out00-PYZ.pyz/PIL.Image", line 63, in ImportError: cannot import name _imaging

I am using:

  • Ubuntu 14.04
  • Python 2.7
  • pyinstaller 2.1
  • PIL.VERSION 1.1.7 (although I thought I had installed Pillow 2.8.1)

The script works fine running as python image_download.py, but pyinstaller is not being able to import _imaging, for some reason.

Any suggestions?

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pythonpyinstallerpillow
try adding import _imaging to the top of image_download.py and rebuild your executable ... sometimes it misses weird hidden imports its probably importing it like import("_imaging") or something somewhere - Joran Beasley
No luck, no such import. I have tried import PIL._imaging and several other combinations with no luck. - user2891462
check this answer stackoverflow.com/questions/32154849/… - Nizam Mohamed

1 Answers

3
votes

Finally I could not use pyinstaller for this, since I could not fix the import problem.

I managed to build a standalone executable with Nuitka and bbfreeze, though, so in case anyone runs into the same problem: it is worth trying other tools.