Py2exe, Runtimeerror with tweepy
Question: I wanted to use the python plugin for twitter called tweepy.

in my main.py file I just imported tweepy

    
    
    import tweepy
    

My setup-file looks like this:

    
    
    from distutils.core import setup
    import py2exe
    setup(
        windows=[{
            "script": 'main.py',
            }],
        options={
            "py2exe": {
                "includes": ["sip", "tweepy"]
            }
        }
    )
    

When i execute python setupy.py py2exe via command line I get this repeating
codeblock until I get an RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in
comparison.

    
    
    File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\py2exe\hooks.py", line 291, in __getattr__
        self.__finder.safe_import_hook(renamed, caller=self)
      File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf3.py", line 138, in safe_import_hook
        self.import_hook(name, caller, fromlist, level)
      File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf3.py", line 120, in import_hook
        module = self._gcd_import(name)
      File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf3.py", line 274, in _gcd_import
        return self._find_and_load(name)
      File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\py2exe\mf3.py", line 298, in _find_and_load
        getattr(parent_module, name.rpartition('.')[2])
    

Does anyone knows a way to break out of this cycle?


Answer: [There seems to be a
bug](http://sourceforge.net/p/py2exe/mailman/message/33804567/) in the
`0.9.2.2` version of py2exe where the module `six.moves.urllib.parse` gets
into an infinite recursion loop until it reaches the maximum depth.

One way to go around it, if you don't really need the module, is to exclude
the module in your `setup.py`:

    
    
    options={
        "py2exe": {
            "includes": ["sip", "tweepy"],
            "excludes": ["six.moves.urllib.parse"]
        }
    }
    

