docx2pdf not found when building using pyinstaller

[prickett]

I'm trying to build my project using pyinstaller and am running into a "library not found" error for docx2pdf. I'm not sure what is causing this problem. Have you used pyinstaller with docx2pdf? And if so, have you had the same problem?

  File "c:\python38\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 623, in exec_module
    exec(bytecode, module.__dict__)
  File "site-packages\docx2pdf\__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
  File "importlib\metadata.py", line 472, in version
  File "importlib\metadata.py", line 445, in distribution
  File "importlib\metadata.py", line 169, in from_name
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: docx2pdf

[AlJohri]

@prickett sorry I don't have much experience with pyinstaller. If you include an easily reproducible example I can try and take a look

[acrete]

pyinstaller is missing hook script to run docx2pdf.

save hook-docx2pdf.py to \Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks

from PyInstaller.utils.hooks import collect_all
datas, binaries, hiddenimports = collect_all('docx2pdf')

Run pyinstaller — onefile youscript.py

[efka84]

@acrete s solution works. here detailed>
go to Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks folder. open the fiile hook-docx2pdf.py remove or comment its content and paste
from PyInstaller.utils.hooks import collect_all
datas, binaries, hiddenimports = collect_all('docx2pdf')

[AnAlpaca]

this solution seemed to work for me if I dont select onefile option. However when i do select onefile my exe just shows a blank console with nothing running?

[aklauritzen]

@acrete Your solution worked perfectly! Thanks.

[AlJohri]

glad ya'll got it working! I'm not super familiar with PyInstaller, but is there something I can do on the library side to make it easier?

[aklauritzen]

@AlJohri I'm not super familiar with PyInstaller either, so I don't have any suggestions at the moment. Docx2pdf works like a charm and suited perfectly for our project. Thank you for sharing your work!

[katie-q-ch]

There is an error in the docx2pdf code. It is about the version. It does not seem that there is a version. A friend helped me to solve this by setting version =1 where it says #version = version(package). The version was set as followed: version = 1 and this solved the problem I had.

[AlJohri]

hi @KieuHa! I don't believe this is an error. There certainly is a version that is being set dynamically using importlib.metadata.version. The version is set here:

docx2pdf/pyproject.toml

Line 3 in 269757c

version = "0.1.7"

However, it looks like pyinstaller require hardcoding this value based on these issues?

• PackageNotFoundError: importlib_metadata with Pluggy 0.12.0 pyinstaller/pyinstaller#4258
• https://gitlab.com/python-devs/importlib_metadata/-/issues/71

Would you mind sending the specific error / stacktrace you receive when the version is dynamically set?

[mmelb]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66676982/pyinstaller-doesnt-recognize-docx2pdf-library The answer here worked for me, pyinstaller works fine after commenting out those lines.

[ghost]

hi @KieuHa! I don't believe this is an error. There certainly is a version that is being set dynamically using importlib.metadata.version. The version is set here:

docx2pdf/pyproject.toml

Line 3 in 269757c

version = "0.1.7"

However, it looks like pyinstaller require hardcoding this value based on these issues?

• PackageNotFoundError: importlib_metadata with Pluggy 0.12.0 pyinstaller/pyinstaller#4258
• https://gitlab.com/python-devs/importlib_metadata/-/issues/71

Would you mind sending the specific error / stacktrace you receive when the version is dynamically set?

try:
from importlib import metadata
except ImportError: # for Python<3.8
import importlib_metadata as metadata
version = metadata.version("jsonschema")

[ghost]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66676982/pyinstaller-doesnt-recognize-docx2pdf-library The answer here worked for me, pyinstaller works fine after commenting out those lines.
can you try :
try:
from importlib import metadata
except ImportError: # for Python<3.8
import importlib_metadata as metadata
version = metadata.version("jsonschema")