Py2exe lxml woes

Question

I have a wxpython application that depends on lxml and works well when running it through the python interpreter. However, when creating an exe with py2exe, I got this error

Answer 1

Py2exe allows you to specify additional packages/modules to include with the options argument to setup(), in case they are not automatically detected. The following should work:

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(
    windows=[{'script': 'gui.py'}],
    options={
        'py2exe': 
        {
            'includes': ['lxml.etree', 'lxml._elementpath', 'gzip'],
        }
    }
)

I've also recently discovered PyInstaller, which has built-in support for a number of well-known packages, including lxml, so that might be worth a try as well.