Running py2exe says run-py3.4-win32.exe is missing

Question

I tried to follow this tutorial and I got stuck. These are the steps I followed:

1. I installed Anaconda 32 bit

2. I executed conda create -n test py2exe -c sasview, which installed Python 3.4.5-0, py2exe 0.9.2.2-py34_1 and other packages

3. I created the hello.py file containing print("Hello World!")

4. I created the setup.py file containing:

   from distutils.core import setup import py2exe setup(console=['hello.py'])

5. I executed

   activate test python setup.py py2exe

The result was:

running py2exe

  1 missing Modules
  ------------------
? readline                            imported from cmd, code, pdb
Building 'dist\hello.exe'.
error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Anaconda3\\envs\\test\\lib\\site-packages\\py2exe\\run-py3.4-win32.exe'

The missing module is just a warning and can be ignored (see here).

Py2exe is not available for Python 3.5 yet, and it looks like conda knows about it and installs python 3.4.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Executing conda create -n test py2exe -c silg2 installs pytnon 3.4.5 instead of the most recent 3.5.2, which makes me think that conda knows which version works with py2exe. Apparently this is not true.

This works:

conda create -n test python=3.4
activate test
pip install py2exe
python setup.py py2exe

Using conda list shows the same packages with the same versions in both environments, but py2exe only works when installed by pip, not when installed by conda.