Outputed py2exe exe won't run only when signed: ImportError

Question

So, I've got a program I made in python 2.6, it ran fine as normal python, and ran fine when made into an exe via py2exe v0.6.9. I used signtool to sign it, having changed nothing else, and it stops working.

When I run the signed exe, I receive an "ImportError: No module named os" from line 1 of my script. I did some digging and found this: http://osdir.com/ml/python.py2exe/2008-04/msg00031.html, which seems to be a very close description of my problem. I manually applied the patch linked to from the py2exe website to my build_exe.py file, though I was running py2exe 0.6.9 instead of 0.6.6, so I tried to take that into account. Still no love.

According to the link, this seems to be a py2exe issue. I don't know though. Any help would be much appreciated. And of course, I'll answer any other questions I can that you have about this. Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

If it's a py2exe issue, maybe give the newer PyInstaller a shot to build your executable. It's in active development, unlike py2exe which apparently hasn't been updated since 2008-11-16.