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Hey Programmers, Game Developers and Software Envolvers...

I try to convert my .py file (an simple test, called "Test1") into an executable program,
using CX_Freeze for python 3.6... i get python 3.6.2 and i get it installed with pip,
on windows. This is my '.py file' they want to convert to:

Test1.py:

import pygame
import sys
  
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((800,600))
done = False
  
while not done:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            done = True
        elif event.type == pygame.KEYDOWN:
            if event.key == pygame.K_ESCAPE:
                done = True
          
    screen.fill((255,0,255))
    pygame.display.update()
pygame.quit()
sys.exit()

This is my setup file, called setup.py:

from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable

setup(name = "C:\Users\Gebruiker\Desktop\Python\Scripts\Test",
      version = "0.1" ,
      description = "" ,
      executables = [Executable("Test1.py")])

The commands thad i call in the command prompt:

The folder:

cd C:\Users\Gebruiker\Desktop\Python\Scripts\Test

My setup command after the folder path:

python setup.py build

Now the problem is at follow... the command prompt can't find my setup.py...
Whats wrong with cx_Freeze... i don't know whats the problem...

Can anyone help me about what the problem is and what do i bad ?...

Thanks, Jamie.

>>> s = 'C:\U'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

Never use single \ that way in path for Windows,
because of escape character.
Okay:

>>> s = 'C:/U'
>>> s
'C:/U'
>>> s = r'C:\U'
>>> s
'C:\\U'
>>> s = 'C:\\U'
>>> s
'C:\\U'

Example setup script Cx_Freeze.

#cx_run.py
from cx_Freeze import setup,Executable
import sys
 
# Replaces commandline arg 'build'
#sys.argv.append("build")
 
# If need to include/exclude module/packages
includes = []
excludes = []
packages = []
 
# Console or Win32GUI
base = None
if sys.platform == "win32":
    #base = 'Console'
    base = 'Win32GUI'
 
# Name of file to make ".exe" of
filename = "Test1.py"
setup(
    name = 'Myapp',
    version = '0.1',
    description = 'Cx test',
    options = {'build_exe': {'excludes':excludes,'packages':packages,'includes':includes}},
    executables = [Executable(filename, base=base, icon=None)])
 
#--|  From command line
#python cx_run.py build

There can bye problem with cx_Freeze and Pygame.

Use Pyinstaller, pip install pyinstaller
Test with your code(Python 3.6.2),i use pipenv for virtual environment in this test.
From command line:

pyinstaller --noconsole --onefile Test1.py

In dist folder there will be 1 file Test1.exe.

Edit:
I did a test with cx_Freeze and it did work with your pygame code

JamieVanCadsand

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