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

I encountered this problem when I just upgraded from ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04, and I fixed this by copying the /usr/bin/python to /path/to/my/env/bin/, and it worked just fine

cp /user/bin/python /path/to/my/env/bin/

or, there's a more elegant way to fix this(reference):

mkvirtualenv