On Apr 8, 10:17 am, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Terry, you pointed me in the right direction with the > reference to the "DEBUG". > > I dug out my "Learning Python" book, to read up on the debugger, and > one of the things I came across was a section on IDLE's debugger. It > said essentially that if you get an error that doesn't make sense when > you're trying to run another program (in this case, py2exe) with IDLE, > then run the program from the command line instead. I did that, and > much to my surprise, I was able to generate the 'exe' that I needed. > > I guess the incompatibility isn't necessarily between 'py2exe' and > 'smtplib' after all, but between 'py2exe' and 'IDLE'.
I also recommend trying out GUI2Exe, a cool GUI wrapper for the py2exe program that allows developers to create executables quickly and easily. It also saves all your settings, which is nice if you need to re-compile frequently. I found it here: http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/main/GUI2Exe.html Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
