ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sgmllib'

[pepoboyii]

So I made an RSS reader with feedparser and used cx_Freeze to make it an .exe. But then the .exe wouldn't run so I ran it through Command Prompt and got the error in the title.

[marcelotduarte]

How you freeze the app, using command line cxfreeze or using setup.py?
You can use the includes or the packages option
https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/script.html#cmdoption-includes
https://cx-freeze.readthedocs.io/en/latest/distutils.html

[pepoboyii]

Including the module with either includes= or with packages= gives then the error during the freezing:
ImportError: No module named 'sgmllib'
I'm using Python 3.9 and I'm aware sgmllib was dropped but since it runs fine on the command line it's not a feedparser issue.

[marcelotduarte]

What version of cx_Freeze you are using? It is marked as excluded in python3 since 6.1 or 6.2.
Then, try to use excludes.

[pepoboyii]

cx_Freeze (6.5.3)
Using excludes= gives the same error of ModuleNotFoundError

[marcelotduarte]

can you put the traceback (maybe the last 10 lines)

[pepoboyii]

Using includes traceback when freezing:

  File "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\Scripts\cxfreeze.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\main.py", line 255, in main
    freezer.Freeze()
  File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\freezer.py", line 758, in Freeze
    self.finder = self._GetModuleFinder()
  File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\freezer.py", line 463, in _GetModuleFinder
    finder.IncludeModule(name)
  File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\finder.py", line 638, in IncludeModule
    module = self._import_module(name, deferred_imports)
  File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\finder.py", line 291, in _import_module
    raise ImportError(f"No module named {name!r}")
ImportError: No module named 'sgmllib'

Using excludes or nothing traceback when trying to run the .exe:

File "test.py", line 1, in <module>
 File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\feedparser\__init__.py", line 28, in <module>
   from .api import parse
 File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\feedparser\api.py", line 36, in <module>
   from .html import _BaseHTMLProcessor
 File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\feedparser\html.py", line 31, in <module>
   from .sgml import *
 File "c:\users\user\appdata\local\programs\python\python39\lib\site-packages\feedparser\sgml.py", line 30, in <module>
   import sgmllib
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sgmllib'

[marcelotduarte]

PR #904 fix this.
You can download the wheels in https://github.com/marcelotduarte/cx_Freeze/suites/1925511446/artifacts/37932928
Extract the wheel for your python in the zip and install with pip install name_of_whell
And change your setup to use includes, to include de module 'sgmllib'

[pepoboyii]

This worked. Gracias!

[marcelotduarte]

cx_Freeze 6.6 has just been released.

[alexfromapex]

Has there been a regression on this? I am having this issue on an M1 Mac, I've tried adding sgml to the setup.py (using Python 3.8.10, Poetry, and PyEnv):

...
"packages": ["feedparser","feedparser.sgml","sgmllib"],
"includes": ["feedparser","feedparser.sgml","sgmllib"],
"excludes": [],
 ...

but still having the issue:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/alex/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/feeder-NpbTmY5B-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cx_Freeze/initscripts/__startup__.py", line 113, in run
    module_init.run(name + "__main__")
  File "/Users/alex/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/feeder-NpbTmY5B-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/cx_Freeze/initscripts/Console.py", line 15, in run
    exec(code, module_main.__dict__)
  File "Feeder.py", line 3, in <module>
  File "/Users/alex/Code/Python/Feeder/ui/rss_panel.py", line 4, in <module>
    import feedparser
  File "/Users/alex/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/feeder-NpbTmY5B-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/feedparser/__init__.py", line 28, in <module>
    from .api import parse
  File "/Users/alex/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/feeder-NpbTmY5B-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/feedparser/api.py", line 37, in <module>
    from .html import _BaseHTMLProcessor
  File "/Users/alex/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/feeder-NpbTmY5B-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/feedparser/html.py", line 31, in <module>
    from .sgml import *
  File "/Users/alex/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/feeder-NpbTmY5B-py3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/feedparser/sgml.py", line 30, in <module>
    import sgmllib
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sgmllib'

In the missing modules list it still appears:

? sgmllib imported from feedparser.sgml

Not sure if it's being caused by a virtualenv from PyEnv or Poetry?

[marcelotduarte]

@alexfromapex This must be sufficient:

options={
        "build_exe": {"includes": ["sgmllib"]},
    },

[alexfromapex]

Works perfectly, thank you! 🚀 I was confused and thought that build_exe was a build format similar to bdist_mac and bdist_dmg but I understand now that its options will apply to any format you build, so for any future readers this works now with python setup.py bdist_mac:

options = {
    "includes": ["sgmllib"],
    "excludes": []
}
base = None

setup(
    name="...",
    version="0.1",
    description="...",
    options={ "build_exe": options },
    executables=[Executable("<your .py file>", base=base)],
)