I have a simple python script that unpack a file.rar It works fine until I compile it into an exe with pyinstaller and it stops working.
Python 3.7 Windows 7 PyInstaller 3.4
My file.py
from pyunpack import Archive
import os
import os.path as path
import subprocess
path=os.getcwd()
Archive('MyFile.rar').extractall(path)
I tried to place myself in:
Python37-32\Lib\site-packages\PyInstaller\hooks
and add hook called "hook-patoolib.py" with the following content
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) 2013-2017, PyInstaller Development Team.
#
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License with exception
# for distributing bootloader.
#
# The full license is in the file COPYING.txt, distributed with this software.
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"""
patoolib uses importlib and pyinstaller doesn't find it and add it to the list of needed modules
"""
hiddenimports = [
'patoolib.programs',
'patoolib.programs.ar',
'patoolib.programs.arc',
'patoolib.programs.archmage',
'patoolib.programs.bsdcpio',
'patoolib.programs.bsdtar',
'patoolib.programs.bzip2',
'patoolib.programs.cabextract',
'patoolib.programs.chmlib',
'patoolib.programs.clzip',
'patoolib.programs.compress',
'patoolib.programs.cpio',
'patoolib.programs.dpkg',
'patoolib.programs.flac',
'patoolib.programs.genisoimage',
'patoolib.programs.gzip',
'patoolib.programs.isoinfo',
'patoolib.programs.lbzip2',
'patoolib.programs.lcab',
'patoolib.programs.lha',
'patoolib.programs.lhasa',
'patoolib.programs.lrzip',
'patoolib.programs.lzip',
'patoolib.programs.lzma',
'patoolib.programs.lzop',
'patoolib.programs.mac',
'patoolib.programs.nomarch',
'patoolib.programs.p7azip',
'patoolib.programs.p7rzip',
'patoolib.programs.p7zip',
'patoolib.programs.pbzip2',
'patoolib.programs.pdlzip',
'patoolib.programs.pigz',
'patoolib.programs.plzip',
'patoolib.programs.py_bz2',
'patoolib.programs.py_echo',
'patoolib.programs.py_gzip',
'patoolib.programs.py_lzma',
'patoolib.programs.py_tarfile',
'patoolib.programs.py_zipfile',
'patoolib.programs.rar',
'patoolib.programs.rpm',
'patoolib.programs.rpm2cpio',
'patoolib.programs.rzip',
'patoolib.programs.shar',
'patoolib.programs.shorten',
'patoolib.programs.star',
'patoolib.programs.tar',
'patoolib.programs.unace',
'patoolib.programs.unadf',
'patoolib.programs.unalz',
'patoolib.programs.uncompress',
'patoolib.programs.unrar',
'patoolib.programs.unshar',
'patoolib.programs.unzip',
'patoolib.programs.xdms',
'patoolib.programs.xz',
'patoolib.programs.zip',
'patoolib.programs.zoo',
'patoolib.programs.zopfli',
'patoolib.programs.zpaq',
]
but I'm still getting
patool can not unpack