[RESOLVED]Error with from astropy.convolution import Gaussian1DKernel about pyinstaller-hooks-contrib HOT 8 OPEN

You'll need to add numpy.distutils (and several submodules from it) to hiddenimports. On PyInstaller 4.3, the easiest way to do so is adding --collect-submodules numpy.distutils to your pyinstaller command line.

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Hmm, this actually looks like a bug in our numpy hook - it explicitly excludes numpy.distutils (which is why as an above work-around, its collection needs to be forced manually).

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Yes. I deliberately excluded that because it was said in numpy/numpy#17184 (comment) that is was unlikely to be useful (and tbh I can't understand why astropy would need it).

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I'd rather that the odd library which does somehow depend on numpy.distutils should --hiddenimport it in rather that change to numpy hook to include it by default.

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It's not astropy's fault, though - at least not directly. It's numpy.ctypeslib.load_library (that astropy uses to load its private extensions) that imports numpy.distutils. But I suppose using numpy's convenience function instead of using ctypes directly might fall under the same argument...

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Grrr. I really like NumPy but I seriously wish it would separate its public API from its guts from its test suite from its build system...

I guess that we'll have to remove that exclusion then.

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Solved with

pyinstaller --onefile --collect-submodules numpy.distutils main.py

Thank you !

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I'm going to keep this open as it needs to be addressed in the numpy hook.

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