ImportError: cannot import name MAXREPEAT with cx_Freeze

Question

I\'m running into an issue with cx_Freeze when running a frozen application (works fine unfrozen).

When running the program it results in the following

Answer 1

_sre is a built in module, so there's no file to include for it, but it doesn't have a MAXREPEAT attribute in Python 2.7.3:

>>> import _sre
>>> _sre

>>> _sre.MAXREPEAT
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'MAXREPEAT'

My best guess is that your frozen copy somehow has the standard library .py modules from Python 2.7.4, but the compiled Python interpreter from 2.7.3 or an earlier version. I see you're working from /usr/local - maybe it's picking up an older version from /usr.