You have encountered a bug,
a workaround is to define
a startup.py:

import TopLevel.mainmodule

and then jythonc --core --deep --jar whatever.jar startup.py

but depending our needs this can be useful or  not.

Let us know.

regards, Samuele Pedroni.


----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Janssen <bill@[...].org> 
To: <jython-users@[...].net> 
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:17 AM
Subject: [Jython-users] freezing an application with pythonc? Do Python
packages work?


>  I've got a fairly large Python application working with Jython, and
>  I'd like to generate a jar file so that the application could be run
>  with a command-line like
> 
>    java -classpath myjarfile.jar TopLevel.mainmodule
> 
>  This looks pretty easy to do with jythonc, and I've gotten it to work
>  on some simple examples.  However my large app does things like
> 
>    import TopLevel
> 
>  from inside TopLevel.mainmodule.  And that doesn't work; I get an
>  import error.  I see that the documentation page for jythonc has some
>  unfinished sections at the bottom, where it says:
> 
> 
>    Freezing modules
> 
>    jythonc can also be used to freeze a python application. The frozen
>    application can then be distributed and deployed as any other java
>    application.
> 
>    Some diffrences between an interpreted application and a frozen
>    application exists:
> 
>      Properties are diffrent. XXX
>      sys.argv[0]
>      loading of python classes.
> 
> 
>  Anyone know the specifics of those differences?  I suspect my troubles
>  are coming from "loading of python classes".  In particular, I notice
>  that if TopLevel contains an __init__.py file, the import fails, but
>  if there's no such module, the import succeeds.
> 
>  Bill
> 
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