PyInstaller file fails to execute script - DistributionNotFound

Question

I\'m trying to convert my python file to an executable using PyInstaller. The program uses the Google Cloud Translate API to translate given text between languages. When run

Answer 1

I had the exact same issue. I solved it by doing this:

1. Goto the Pyinstaller hooks folder (~\Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks)
2. Find the file hook-google.cloud.py, open it, and add the following code to it

datas += copy_metadata('google-cloud-translate')
datas += copy_metadata('google-api-core')

The issue seems to be that get_distribution is not working with the default google.cloud.translate hook, so I just added this to a hook that was working.

Hope this helps someone.