Py2exe error handling redirection and popup

Question

I tried to figure out how to get py2exe to handle errors more elegantly. Two strange things basically happen:

1) A pop-up message after turning off the program => you need to disable (do not show) this pop-up window

• Use try / except => does not work
  • http://osdir.com/ml/python.py2exe/2006-09/msg00016.html
  • Not sure where to put this code

2) Creating a log file created in c: \ Program Files \ AppName \ AppName.exe.log (sometimes with write permissions to this folder) => redirect the log to c: \ ProgramData p>

• Use sys.stdout and sys.stderr => not working
  • http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/234318-py2exe-do-not-show-errors-occurred-prompt-to-user/
  • Not sure where to put this code

I think I can just put the code in the wrong place, and the py2exe bootstrap code runs AFTER I installed them, but I'm not sure. I tried putting this code right before I generated the error log, but it still goes where py2exe loads them (StdErr objects)

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The structure of my program is as follows

src/ python/ gui/ __main__.py 

Basic .py

 if __name__ == "__main__": # Redirect py2exe log to somewhere else if windows if hasattr(sys,"frozen") and sys.frozen in ("windows_exe", "console_exe"): stdout_file = "c:\ProgramData\AppName\out.log" stderr_file = "c:\ProgramData\AppName\err.log" sys.stdout = open(stdout_file, "w") sys.stderr = open(stderr_file, "w") try: gui = AppNameGui() gui.main() except: traceback.print_exc() 

Answer 1

This is an old post, but still someone may find it convenient. You can turn off this annoying popup by specifying the distribution of loggers

 logger.propagate = False 

The reason is that the log does not distribute the output to the console. For more information, check the source code in the py2exe package:

 py2exe\boot_common.py 

Answer 2

I had problems when one of import made a mistake right at the top of my file. I had to transfer the stdout / stderr redirect directly to the top of the file to ensure that the logs were not created as py2exe would like.