Clever Geek Handbook

Webdriverprefs.json not found - pyinstaller

I have a python program that uses the selenium package and when building an exe from that with pyinstaller

it, it creates the exe correctly. When trying to open firefox from this application, I got the following error:

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'C: \\ users \\ mohamed \\ Temp \\ _ MEI622 \\ selenium \\ webdriver \\ firefox \\ webdriver_prefs.json'

I found this solution, but it doesn't work for me:

Py2exe does not copy webdriver_prefs.json file into assemblies

Any ideas?

+3


source to share


3 answers


I found a solution for the same, when freezing exe scripts do not use -onefile, use -onedir instead, it will generate one folder for all files and then copy selenium folder to path c: \ python27 \ lib \ site-packages \ selenium to your application folder and it works correctly



+3


source


just include these (.json and .xpi) files as arbitrary files in your .spec file.

here is what worked for me (you may have to change the paths):

needed_selenium_files = [(r'selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver_prefs.json',
                           r'C:\Anaconda\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver_prefs.json',
                          'DATA'),
                         (r'selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.xpi',        
                           r'C:\Anaconda\Lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.xpi',
                           'DATA')]


and then:

coll = COLLECT(exe, a.binaries, needed_selenium_files, ...)

more on the PyInstaller manual: http://pythonhosted.org/PyInstaller/#toc-class-table-of-contents and also http://pythonhosted.org/PyInstaller/#adding-files-to-the-bundle

+2


source


In my experience pyinstaller always comes up with something when building executables. I suggest you py2exe instead .

-1


source






More articles:


All Articles