Issues Using py2exe

Question

So I ran py2exe with a piece of code like

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(console=['WorkingPSI_J.py'])

and the console did everything it should have (I don't seem to have any errors). Afterward however I got no build or distribution folders. Did I miss something simple? Thanks in advance.

edit:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\untitled-22.py", line 4, in <module>
    setup(console=['WorkingPSI_J.py'])
  File "C:\Python27\lib\distutils\core.py", line 140, in setup
    raise SystemExit, gen_usage(dist.script_name) + "\nerror: %s" % msg
SystemExit: usage: untitled-22.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: untitled-22.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: untitled-22.py --help-commands
   or: untitled-22.py cmd --help

I noticed upon running it a second time that it tells me it's 'skipping' a lot of things. Does anyone know how to fix that sort of issue?

Answer 1

Your problem is that you are trying to compile your script using IDLE. When you are using py2exe, you have to do it a little bit different.

If you've used Disutils before, you might have seen this:

python setup.py install

The same way you're using py2exe. So type in cmd:

python untitled-22.py py2exe 

And it should work. BTW I recommend you reading this tutorial at py2exe.org.