Access denied using Py2exe

Question

I\'m using Py2exe to create an executable as a windows service.

When I run the script I get this error:

File \"C:\\TeamCity\\buildAgent\\work\

Answer 1

The problem is likely an antivirus program blocking write access to .exe files as others have noted. If you cannot or do not want to disable antivirus the following patch at the beginning of your setup.py file will rename the file to avoid the .exe extension before the modification and rename it back after.

import py2exe.py2exe_util
from py2exe.py2exe_util import add_resource
import os

def add_resource_patch(name, *arg, **kwarg):
    name_tmp = name + '.tmp'
    os.rename(name, name_tmp)
    add_resource(name_tmp, *arg, **kwarg)
    os.rename(name_tmp, name)

py2exe.py2exe_util.add_resource = add_resource_patch

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe
setup(...)