"maximum recursion depth" when compiling a py file with py2exe

Question

Py2exe worked pretty well in a single py file a few months ago. But when I tried it again today, it failed, reporting that the maximum recursion depth "RuntimeError: maximum recursion" was exceeded. As a result, I got an empty "dist" folder. The Py file works fine, it just cannot be compiled. I think something is wrong with the imported modules in the py file. But I can’t figure it out for sure. Does anyone know a solution?

The initial part of my py file is:

import xlrd import wx import wx.lib.filebrowsebutton as filebrowse from scipy.optimize import fsolve import math import threading from sympy import Symbol from sympy import solve 

And the last few lines of the cmd window:

 File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 332, in _safe_import_hook self.import_hook(name, caller, level=level) File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 719, in import_hook return Base.import_hook(self,name,caller,fromlist,level) File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 137, in import_hook m = self.load_tail(q, tail) File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 214, in load_tail m = self.import_module(head, mname, m) File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 724, in import_module r = Base.import_module(self,partnam,fqname,parent) File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 284, in import_module m = self.load_module(fqname, fp, pathname, stuff) File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 730, in load_module r = Base.load_module(self, fqname, fp, pathname, (suffix, mode, typ)) File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 314, in load_module self.scan_code(co, m) File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 423, in scan_code self._safe_import_hook(name, m, fromlist, level=level) File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 332, in _safe_import_hook self.import_hook(name, caller, level=level) File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 719, in import_hook return Base.import_hook(self,name,caller,fromlist,level) File "D:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf.py", line 134, in import_hook self.msg(3, "import_hook", name, caller, fromlist, level) RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded D:\Python27\py2exetemp>pause 

Answer 1

I will try to increase the recursion depth limit. Insert at the beginning of the file:

 import sys sys.setrecursionlimit(5000) 

Answer 2

This error can also occur when installing Jason path.py, as described here: http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/PathModul . The solution from this page is

Just rename

 site-packages/path.py to site-packages/jpath.py 

and make sure you also switch the import to

 import jpath 

Answer 3

It works for pyinstaller

Create a spec file

 pyi-makespec options name.py 

Modify this specification by adding to the beginning of the file

 import sys sys.setrecursionlimit(5000) # or more 

Build executable file

 pyi options name.spec