Help with pyinstaller - Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\x90'

[arruw]

This is question.

I'm trying to bundle unoconv with pyinstaller. All I did is downloaded unoconv script and run following commands:

python --version
python unoconv --version
pyinstaller -F unoconv
.\dist\unoconv.exe --version

I have added # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- header after shebang and saved unoconv script as UTF-8. But still geting same error. How can I get this to work?

Here is complete output:

PS C:\Users\matja\Desktop> python --version
Python 2.7.13
PS C:\Users\matja\Desktop> python unoconv --version
unoconv 0.7
Written by Dag Wieers <dag@wieers.com>
Homepage at http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/

platform nt/win32
python 3.3.5 (default, Aug 23 2017, 07:39:04) [MSC v.1800 64 bit (AMD64)]
LibreOffice 5.3.6.1
PS C:\Users\matja\Desktop> pyinstaller --version
3.2.1
PS C:\Users\matja\Desktop> pyinstaller -F unoconv
144 INFO: PyInstaller: 3.2.1
145 INFO: Python: 2.7.13
146 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.15063
153 INFO: wrote C:\Users\matja\Desktop\unoconv.spec
155 INFO: UPX is not available.
159 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths
['C:\\Users\\matja\\Desktop', 'C:\\Users\\matja\\Desktop']
159 INFO: checking Analysis
159 INFO: Building Analysis because out00-Analysis.toc is non existent
161 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph...
165 INFO: Initializing module graph hooks...
298 INFO: running Analysis out00-Analysis.toc
303 INFO: Adding Microsoft.VC90.CRT to dependent assemblies of final executable
  required by c:\python27\python.exe
451 INFO: Found C:\Windows\WinSxS\Manifests\amd64_policy.9.0.microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.1_none_3da38fde
bd0e6822.manifest
455 INFO: Found C:\Windows\WinSxS\Manifests\amd64_policy.9.0.microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.9279_none_acd3d
86fe1d846c4.manifest
599 INFO: Searching for assembly amd64_Microsoft.VC90.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.9279_none ...
601 INFO: Found manifest C:\Windows\WinSxS\Manifests\amd64_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.9279_none_08e667e
fa83ba076.manifest
605 INFO: Searching for file msvcr90.dll
605 INFO: Found file C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.9279_none_08e667efa83ba076\msvc
r90.dll
605 INFO: Searching for file msvcp90.dll
606 INFO: Found file C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.9279_none_08e667efa83ba076\msvc
p90.dll
606 INFO: Searching for file msvcm90.dll
606 INFO: Found file C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.9279_none_08e667efa83ba076\msvc
m90.dll
710 INFO: Found C:\Windows\WinSxS\Manifests\amd64_policy.9.0.microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.1_none_3da38fde
bd0e6822.manifest
711 INFO: Found C:\Windows\WinSxS\Manifests\amd64_policy.9.0.microsoft.vc90.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_9.0.30729.9279_none_acd3d
86fe1d846c4.manifest
713 INFO: Adding redirect Microsoft.VC90.CRT version (9, 0, 21022, 8) -> (9, 0, 30729, 9279)
837 INFO: Caching module hooks...
846 INFO: Analyzing C:\Users\matja\Desktop\unoconv
922 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook   distutils
2940 INFO: Loading module hooks...
2940 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-distutils.py"...
2942 INFO: Loading module hook "hook-encodings.py"...
3733 INFO: Looking for ctypes DLLs
3733 INFO: Analyzing run-time hooks ...
3740 INFO: Looking for dynamic libraries
3990 INFO: Looking for eggs
3991 INFO: Using Python library C:\Windows\system32\python27.dll
3992 INFO: Found binding redirects:
[BindingRedirect(name=u'Microsoft.VC90.CRT', language=None, arch=u'amd64', oldVersion=(9, 0, 21022, 8), newVersion=(9, 0,
30729, 9279), publicKeyToken=u'1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b')]
4004 INFO: Warnings written to C:\Users\matja\Desktop\build\unoconv\warnunoconv.txt
4101 INFO: checking PYZ
4105 INFO: Building PYZ because out00-PYZ.toc is non existent
4106 INFO: Building PYZ (ZlibArchive) C:\Users\matja\Desktop\build\unoconv\out00-PYZ.pyz
4622 INFO: Building PYZ (ZlibArchive) C:\Users\matja\Desktop\build\unoconv\out00-PYZ.pyz completed successfully.
4710 INFO: checking PKG
4711 INFO: Building PKG because out00-PKG.toc is non existent
4712 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) out00-PKG.pkg
4758 INFO: Redirecting Microsoft.VC90.CRT version (9, 0, 21022, 8) -> (9, 0, 30729, 9279)
6428 INFO: Building PKG (CArchive) out00-PKG.pkg completed successfully.
6436 INFO: Bootloader c:\python27\lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\bootloader\Windows-64bit\run.exe
6437 INFO: checking EXE
6437 INFO: Building EXE because out00-EXE.toc is non existent
6438 INFO: Building EXE from out00-EXE.toc
6438 INFO: Appending archive to EXE C:\Users\matja\Desktop\dist\unoconv.exe
6962 INFO: Building EXE from out00-EXE.toc completed successfully.
PS C:\Users\matja\Desktop> .\dist\unoconv.exe --version
  File "C:\Users\matja\Desktop\dist\unoconv.exe", line 1
SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\x90' in file C:\Users\matja\Desktop\dist\unoconv.exe on line 1, but no encodin
g declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

[regebro]

Unoconv attempts to run itself with the Python instance that is shipped with the Office install. Since pyinstaller attempts to bundle Python with the script I suspect this won't work, even if you build the EXE with the Office Python.

What is your goal with making an EXE?

[regebro]

Closing for lack of feedback. This can be reopened if needed.