No module named machinery

Question

I am trying to make exe using py2exe in Python. When I import py2exe I am getting error like this:

Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> import py2exe
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe-0.9.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\py2exe\__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
    patch_distutils()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe-0.9.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\py2exe\patch_distutils.py", line 68, in patch_distutils
    from . import distutils_buildexe
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe-0.9.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\py2exe\distutils_buildexe.py", line 91, in <module>
    from . import runtime
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe-0.9.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\py2exe\runtime.py", line 3, in <module>
    from .dllfinder import Scanner, pydll
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\py2exe-0.9.2.0-py2.7-win32.egg\py2exe\dllfinder.py", line 7, in <module>
    from importlib.machinery import EXTENSION_SUFFIXES
ImportError: No module named machinery

Can any body help me fixing this out. I am not getting machinery module any where.

Answer 1

I just ran into this myself. I had installed 0.9 from pypi as well. If you look at the pypi page here py2exe on pypi, you'll see that the download only supports Python 3.3 and later and you should use the 0.6 download from here. I deleted the 0.9 egg after installing 0.6 and it worked after that.

Answer 2

I had same issue, because i had version py2exe0.9 and it is not supported for python2.7.

I downloaded lower version from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/py2exe/files/py2exe/0.6.9/py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.7.exe/download

and it works.