cx_Freeze doesn't seem to work

[owenwalker65]

hello.py is

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from datetime import datetime
import sys
from sys import stdout
stdout.write('Hello from cx_Freeze\n')
stdout.write('The current date is %s\n\n' %
             datetime.today().strftime('%B %d, %Y %H:%M:%S'))
stdout.write('Executable: %r\n' % sys.executable)
stdout.write('Prefix: %r\n' % sys.prefix)
stdout.write('File system encoding: %r\n\n' % sys.getfilesystemencoding())
stdout.write('ARGUMENTS:\n')
for a in sys.argv:
    stdout.write('%s\n' % a)
stdout.write('\n')
stdout.write('PATH:\n')
for p in sys.path:
    stdout.write('%s\n' % p)
stdout.write('\n')

The two files, hello.py and setup.py came with cx_Freeze when I downloaded it and therefore should be in proper form.



setup.py is

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# A very simple setup script to create a single executable
#
# hello.py is a very simple 'Hello, world' type script which also displays the
# environment in which the script runs
#
# Run the build process by running the command 'python setup.py build'
#
# If everything works well you should find a subdirectory in the build
# subdirectory that contains the files needed to run the script without Python
from cx_Freeze import setup, Executable
executables = [
    Executable('hello.py')
]
setup(name='hello',
      version='0.1',
      description='Sample cx_Freeze script',
      executables=executables
      )

I have previously had no luck with py2exe or pyinstaller, which evidently work only with python 2.

Thanks.