pyinstaller creating EXE RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

Question

I am running WinPython 3.4.4.3 with pyinstaller 3.2 (obtained via pip install pyinstaller).

Now I\'ve got some really simple Qt4 code that I want to convert to EXE a

Answer 1

I was facing the same issue. I tried most of the things suggested here. But, I could not solve the issue on my laptop. What worked for me is summarized below:

1. Open Anaconda prompt.
2. Activate your environment using conda activate my_env.
3. Navigate to your project folder from the Anaconda command prompt using cd your_folder_directory.
4. Run pyinstaller --onefile my_python_file.py

This should not create any recursion error. This will create a dist folder in your project directory. Your executable will present in this folder.