[BUG] Unable to package rich with Py2exe

[imranrajjad]

Unable to package python app with rich library

Below is a sample file

import tkinter
from tkinter import *

from rich.console import Console
from rich.table import Column, Table
from rich.live import Live

root = Tk()
root.title('A Tk Application')
Label(text='I am a label').pack(pady=15)
root.mainloop()

Below is setup.py used by py2exe

from distutils.core import setup
from xml.etree.ElementInclude import include
import py2exe
 
setup(windows=['tkexample.py'])

after running
python setup.py py2exe

py2exe crashes with below error

File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1332, in invalidate_caches
  File "<frozen zipimport>", line 333, in invalidate_caches
  File "<frozen zipimport>", line 408, in _read_directory
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

The error goes away if imports of rich are removed.

Has anyone come across this?

[willmcgugan]

This probably isn't an issue with Rich. Suggest you reach out to py2exe devs.