PyInstaller, boto3 and configparser
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The current version of PyInstaller (6.5.0) doesn’t play nicely with the
boto3
boto3 package. Here’s how to fix it.The Problem
My
requirements.txt
requirements.txt looks something like this:boto3==1.20.54
botocore==1.23.54
pyinstaller==6.5.0
boto3==1.20.54
botocore==1.23.54
pyinstaller==6.5.0
boto3==1.20.54 botocore==1.23.54 pyinstaller==6.5.0
I wrap my script using PyInstaller.
pyinstaller -c -y --onefile crawler.py
pyinstaller -c -y --onefile crawler.py
pyinstaller -c -y --onefile crawler.py
When I build and run the executable locally it works 100% fine. However, when I build on GitHub Actions (using
ubuntu-latest
ubuntu-latest) I get a flurry of error messages (most mentioning either boto3
boto3 or botocore
botocore) that terminate withModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'configparser'
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'configparser'
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'configparser'
The Solution
The reason for the error is that PyInstaller is failing to detect the dependency on
configparser
configparser. There are two ways to address this, either on the command line:pyinstaller -c -y --hidden-import=configparser --onefile crawler.py
pyinstaller -c -y --hidden-import=configparser --onefile crawler.py
pyinstaller -c -y --hidden-import=configparser --onefile crawler.py
or via the
.spec
.spec file:a = Analysis(
['crawler.py'],
pathex=[],
binaries=[],
datas=[],
hiddenimports=['configparser'],
hookspath=[],
hooksconfig={},
runtime_hooks=[],
excludes=[],
noarchive=False,
)
pyz = PYZ(a.pure)
a = Analysis(
['crawler.py'],
pathex=[],
binaries=[],
datas=[],
hiddenimports=['configparser'],
hookspath=[],
hooksconfig={},
runtime_hooks=[],
excludes=[],
noarchive=False,
)
pyz = PYZ(a.pure)
a = Analysis(
['crawler.py'],
pathex=[],
binaries=[],
datas=[],
hiddenimports=['configparser'],
hookspath=[],
hooksconfig={},
runtime_hooks=[],
excludes=[],
noarchive=False,
)
pyz = PYZ(a.pure)
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