The 'google-api-python-client' distribution was not found and is required by the application with pyinstaller

Question

I am currently trying to build an app with pyinstaller. I have gotten the error The \'google-api-python-client\' distribution was not found and is required by the appl

Answer 1

My case is an Python-Flask windows app bundled with Pyinstaller --onefile option, using a .spec file.

I've copied the folder google_api_python_client-1.9.3.dist-info from the original location (maybe the windows site-packages folder) to the project folder.

Adding the following line to Pyinstaller spec file datas section (app.spec) was the solution for the problem.

a = Analysis(.......  

datas=[.....

('project\\google_api_python_client-1.9.3.dist-info','google_api_python_client-1.9.3.dist-info'),     

.......],