How To Fix The "warning: Hidden Import" Error Pygame._view "not Found!" After I Turned My .py Program Into .exe?

After converting my .py program to .exe, my program stops running. I get the WARNING: Hidden import information pygame._view 'not found!'. I tried to import the module but that doe

Solution 1:

Actually, I can't reproduce your error. But I had a hard time to freeze apps that uses pygame and this should fix your problem too.

Sometimes a better way is to include your module manually. For that first, you need to exclude your module with exclude-module and feed the module manually to the final executable with Tree class. Also with this method, some Python libs would miss and need to be added either by hidden-import or Tree. For example, in here I've added xml as Tree and queue as hidden-import.

import`. Use below spec file:

# -*- mode: python -*-

block_cipher = None


a = Analysis(['script.py'],
             pathex=['C:\\Users\\Rahimi\\Desktop\\test'],
             binaries=[],
             datas=[],
             hiddenimports=['queue'],
             hookspath=[],
             runtime_hooks=[],
             excludes=['pygame'],
             win_no_prefer_redirects=False,
             win_private_assemblies=False,
             cipher=block_cipher,
             noarchive=False)
a.datas += Tree("<python_path>/Lib/site-packages/pygame/", prefix= "pygame")
a.datas += Tree("<python_path>/lib/xml/", prefix= "xml")
pyz = PYZ(a.pure, a.zipped_data,
             cipher=block_cipher)
exe = EXE(pyz,
          a.scripts,
          a.binaries,
          a.zipfiles,
          a.datas,
          [],
          name='script',
          debug=False,
          bootloader_ignore_signals=False,
          strip=False,
          upx=False,
          runtime_tmpdir=None,
          console=True )

Remember to edit path based on your current environment. Finally, generate your executable with:

pyinstaller script.spec