excel – Error using cx_freeze and PyInstaller to make an .exe file in Python (which includes xlwings)

Yesterday I asked a question about using Excel and Python simultaneously. The solution was found: using xlwings package.

However, there is another problem connected with that – I can not save my .py file as an executable file (exe).

Here is the code I try to save:

doiterations.py

    import xlwings as xl
    import numpy
    import time

    wb = xl.Workbook.active()
    sheet = wb.active

    iter = input("How many iterations do you need? \n")
    i = 0
    cell1 = raw_input("Write a column where you need to iterate \n")
    cell2 = int(raw_input("Write a row where you need to iterate \n"))

    while True:
        i += 1
            if i <= iter:
                arg = numpy.random.uniform()
                xl.Range("%s%d" % (cell1, cell2)).value = arg
            else:
                break

        wb.save()
        print("Done!")

        time.sleep(2)

I tried to use cx_freezer and made a setup.py file with the following code:

        from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable

        setup(
            name = "Uniform distribution generator",
            version = "1.0",
            description = "Uniform distribution generator",
            executables = [Executable("doiterations.py")]
        )

Such setyp.py files with the similar code properly worked with other modules. However, this time I got an error no file named sys:

    cx_Freeze.freezer.ConfigError: no file named sys (for module collections.sys)

I tried to use PyInstaller package with the following command:

and again faced an error:

    UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc0 in position 7: ordinal not in range(128)

I searched through Google and Stackoverflow and found some comments on this problem that may help to find the solution:

https://mborgerson.com/creating-an-executable-from-a-python-script
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/192592-making-an-exe-file-with-pyinstaller/

cx_freeze fails to create exe with pandas library
cx-freeze error on build
Traceback from CX_Freeze doesn't make sense

My version of Python is 2.7.

Please, help to solve the problem and create a working executable file!

pip install --upgrade https://bitbucket.org/anthony_tuininga/cx_freeze/get/tip.zip

Tags: excel, file, pythonpython