pyinstaller hooks never called

Question

I am trying to create an EXE of a python program. The program is quite complex and cannot be listed here. I have some user defined modules, halfwave, halfwave.utils and halfwave.db. I need to create a hook for these modules, so I have made files hook-halfwave.py, hook-halfwave.db.py and halfwave.utils.py and put in a folder called hooks. In the program I import the modules

from halfwave import ...
from halfwave.utils import ...
from halfwave.db import ...

But the hook files are never called by the pyinstaller. I have tried setting hookspath in the Analysis structure of the spec file and set the --additional-hooks-path switch. If I put the hook files in the pyinstaller hooks path, they get called, but that is not a good option. What is the trick for making the pyinstaller call the hook files?

EDIT: The command I run is

pyinstaller -y foo.spec

and the .spec file looks something like this

a = Analysis(['.\\src\\testfoo.py'],
         pathex=['C:\\Data\\python\\testfoo'],
         hiddenimports=[],
         hookspath='.\\hooks\\',
         runtime_hooks=None)
pyz = PYZ(a.pure)
exe = EXE(pyz,
      a.scripts, ...

Also tried using the --additional-hooks-dir switch, but that makes no difference.

Thanks

Can you please edit your question with the full command line you are trying to execute, including the relevant switch for including your hook files? — Yoel, May 24 '15 at 11:42

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 27 '15 at 10:28

I think the hookspath argument should be a list of paths, as follows:

a = Analysis(['.\\src\\testfoo.py'],
         pathex=['C:\\Data\\python\\testfoo'],
         hiddenimports=[],
         hookspath=['.\\hooks\\'],
         runtime_hooks=None)
pyz = PYZ(a.pure)
exe = EXE(pyz,
      a.scripts, ...

pyinstaller hooks never called

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