Create an opportunity of choosing python version to run auto-py-to-exe.

[PovarIsSFEDU]

Greetings everyone! Just ran into a probably not huge, but still a problem:

Steps to reproduce

• System: Windows 10 x64 Home mono-lang edition
• Py versions installed (home/pet-project usage): 3.11.0 (x64), 3.9.5 (x64), 3.8.10 (x32)

I'm using all of this versions im my projects (3.8 due to a need of Windows-7 compatibility).

So, when i tried to use py version that differs from PATH highest place, I've realized that auto-py-to-exe runs ONLY WITH default PATH version. No match for me, so i've tried manual operations to start it with 3.8 but nothing helps. You can install it with

python<version> -m pip install ...

command, but neither find nor use it (it installs in C:/Users/<User>/AppData/Roaming/Python/Python<version>/site-packages and is prohibited to use).

So the question for devs is - may be (in some way) it is possible to choose different py version to run auto-py-to-exe? 'Cause I've just manually uninstalled all py-s except 3.8 😥

[PovarIsSFEDU]

@brentvollebregt ping, still upvote 🙈

[brentvollebregt]

You can use python -m auto_py_to_exe - this works in the same way as your pip example.

Unfortunately I couldn't use the dashes as it's not valid in module names.

[PovarIsSFEDU]

@brentvollebregt U're right, but there is still a problem:

PS C:\Users\lukash_pa> python -m auto-py-to-exe
C:\Users\lukash_pa\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\python.exe: No module named auto-py-to-exe
PS C:\Users\lukash_pa> python -m pip install auto-py-to-exe
Collecting auto-py-to-exe
  Downloading auto_py_to_exe-2.32.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (108 kB)
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Collecting Eel==0.14.0
  Downloading Eel-0.14.0.tar.gz (17 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Collecting pyinstaller>=5.8.0
  Downloading pyinstaller-5.8.0-py3-none-win_amd64.whl (1.3 MB)
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Collecting bottle
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Collecting bottle-websocket
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Collecting future
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Collecting pyparsing
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Collecting whichcraft
  Downloading whichcraft-0.6.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (5.2 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: setuptools>=42.0.0 in c:\users\lukash_pa\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from pyinstaller>=5.8.0->auto-py-to-exe) (65.5.0)
Collecting altgraph
  Downloading altgraph-0.17.3-py2.py3-none-any.whl (21 kB)
Collecting pyinstaller-hooks-contrib>=2021.4
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Collecting pefile>=2022.5.30
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Collecting pywin32-ctypes>=0.2.0
  Downloading pywin32_ctypes-0.2.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (28 kB)
Collecting gevent-websocket
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Collecting gevent
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Collecting greenlet>=2.0.0
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Collecting cffi>=1.12.2
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Installing collected packages: whichcraft, pywin32-ctypes, bottle, altgraph, zope.interface, zope.event, pyparsing, pyinstaller-hooks-contrib, pycparser, pefile, greenlet, future, pyinstaller, cffi, gevent, gevent-websocket, bottle-websocket, Eel, auto-py-to-exe
  DEPRECATION: future is being installed using the legacy 'setup.py install' method, because it does not have a 'pyproject.toml' and the 'wheel' package is not installed. pip 23.1 will enforce this behaviour change. A possible replacement is to enable the '--use-pep517' option. Discussion can be found at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8559
  Running setup.py install for future ... done
  DEPRECATION: bottle-websocket is being installed using the legacy 'setup.py install' method, because it does not have a 'pyproject.toml' and the 'wheel' package is not installed. pip 23.1 will enforce this behaviour change. A possible replacement is to enable the '--use-pep517' option. Discussion can be found at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8559
  Running setup.py install for bottle-websocket ... done
  DEPRECATION: Eel is being installed using the legacy 'setup.py install' method, because it does not have a 'pyproject.toml' and the 'wheel' package is not installed. pip 23.1 will enforce this behaviour change. A possible replacement is to enable the '--use-pep517' option. Discussion can be found at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8559
  Running setup.py install for Eel ... done
Successfully installed Eel-0.14.0 altgraph-0.17.3 auto-py-to-exe-2.32.0 bottle-0.12.25 bottle-websocket-0.2.9 cffi-1.15.1 future-0.18.3 gevent-22.10.2 gevent-websocket-0.10.1 greenlet-2.0.2 pefile-2023.2.7 pycparser-2.21 pyinstaller-5.8.0 pyinstaller-hooks-contrib-2023.0 pyparsing-3.0.9 pywin32-ctypes-0.2.0 whichcraft-0.6.1 zope.event-4.6 zope.interface-5.5.2

[notice] A new release of pip available: 22.3.1 -> 23.0.1
[notice] To update, run: python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
PS C:\Users\lukash_pa> python -m auto-py-to-exe
C:\Users\lukash_pa\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\python.exe: No module named auto-py-to-exe

I mean, i definetely have python on my PC, but i can't neither choose py version to run auto-py-to-exe nor at least start it with any installed py version. I've checked all combinations of commands and tried to resolve it with root privilegies - nothing helps. It seems that the only way to use auto-py-to-exe is to call it directly, without "python -m" command wrapping. So it will start with default PATH python version and you cannot change it that easy.

[brentvollebregt]

@PovarIsSFEDU please use underscores, not dashes when running the tool using python -m (like my example).

[PovarIsSFEDU]

Holy pepperoni, I've just got it and i feel sorry for my stupidity (
When I saw your first message i was like "Bruh, the same string", now i get it. Thanks for your reply and sorry for distraction