Pyinstaller does not read my hooks file and fails with win32com.shell

According to the pyinstaller docs, if you name a file hook-fully.qualified.import.name.py

, it will read that file whenever you import the corresponding file .py

.

However, my script looks like this:

import pythoncom
from win32com.shell import shell
from win32com import storagecon
...

      

        
        
        
      

    

And pyinstaller refuses to recognize win32com.shell

with the following error: ImportError: No module named 'win32com.shell'

. So I created hook-win32com.shell.py

with the following code:

hiddenimports = [
    'win32com.shell.shell',
]

      

        
        
        
      

    

pyinstaller never reads this file, however it does hook-win32com.py

, so I also tried to just add `` win32com.shell '' to the above file with hooks, but it didn't do much.

• How do I get pyinstaller to read my hook file.
• How do I enable win32com.shell
  
  ? (So ​​I get rid of "No module named" at runtime .exe)