Issue making .exe with Pyinstaller : compilation is done but the .exe fails - python-3.x

I have a rather large python script that I would like to convert to .exe. I use PyInstaller and I managed to import every library needed so now I don't get any error message. My problem is that at some point, the .exe is stuck, so the conversion with PyInstaller didn't really worked. I suspect the issue is related to the PyAutoGui library, but I had to import it to convert my python script (I used pip install).
Does anyone else got the same issue? Is there something I can do to remove this issue?
I have python 3.9.2 and pyinstaller 4.2 and I am working with windows 10.
The libraries I had to import are : pyautogui, pandas, bs4, pygame, PyQt5, pywin32, winshell, pymysql, sqlalchemy, sqlalchemy.sql.default_comparator, wmi, Pillow, psutil and lxml.
Thanks for your suggestions!

In my experience, PyInstaller has had trouble generating .exe files from python scripts that use graphics libraries such as pygame and PyQt5. Mostly, it fails to generate the .exe and even when it does, the .exe takes a long time to load up and is really slow. If you want an .exe file, I would suggest trying out cx_freeze. To my knowledge, it won't generate .exe in one file like pyinstaller does, but the .exe file it does generate is of much higher quality.

We think we found the issue: pyautogui needs an other package called open-cv to work. Hope it'll help someone someday ;-)

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Why does Tkinter work in the terminal but not in Pycharm?

Using Pycharm on Linux mint.
I installed the "future" package for the python interpreter which I'm using. Heres the script.
from tkinter import *
top = Tk()
top.mainloop()
Didn't work. It returns "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tkinter'". Tkinter is infact installed. "python3 -m tkinter" confirms it. And when I compile the same code in the terminal, it displays.
As Bryan says, you're probably not using the Python version you think you're using. PyCharm tends to install its own version of Python. Once you have more than one version of Python installed, things get trickier.
To see what's happening, try running this script:
import sys
print(sys.executable, sys.version)
Or run those similar commands from the command line. That should help clarify matters.
The sys.executable will show you the full path to your Python executable. Great for seeing where the used Python installation is located.
I don't use Python on Linux, but perhaps one of your Python installations is version 2, in which case you would need to use:
from Tkinter import *
which is another way to confirm that the Python is version 2 rather than 3. If this is the case, you'll want to move to Python 3. I don't think anyone writes new projects in Python 2 anymore. It's defunct, purely legacy.
It's also possible that Python is installed on Linux without Tkinter. There are other posts on how to install Tkinter on Linux. For instance, you can check out ImportError: No module named 'Tkinter'
Thanks guys for the help I really appreciate it. But I found out the problem was because of Linux Mint's Software Manager. I initially downloaded pycharm using said software manager but it didnt work which is why I created the post. Then I deleted it, and downloaded pycharm through the tar.gz file from the jetbrains website. After doing that, it seems to work.

Error when Converting .py to .exe with cx_freeze

I am trying to convert my .py code to .exe. I tried all the options from posts on here and on the web, and all I could up with was the error below when I used cx_Freeze, and the .exe not opening when I used pyinstaller.
can someone help with the error below or give an alternative that works?
PS: my py code is actually ipython code from my jupyter notebook, but I'm trying not to share the code source.
Finally got it working while using pyinstaller, the key was to open the .exe file from the command window to be able to see the warning, which was "Import cv2 not found" after I deleted that line(since I was not using that module) and re built it, the .exe file now works. Hope this will help someone one day

cx_freeze exe have issue with numpy

i'm using cx_Freeze for the first time, and i'm facing an issue with numpy.
after i build the application with cx_freeze, whene i run the .exe file, i got this error in the image
i'm using numpy in my software, and obviously that's what make the problem, i wrote a litte software that uses numpy just for testing, and i built the .exe, and it gives me the same error, any help please ?
I suggest posting your setup.py but guessing based on a similar error I had previously, check that you have included numpy in the build_exe_options["packages"].

Cannot find module _frozen_importlib_external when running a frozen exe program

Hi I am pretty new to cx_Freeze, so when I try to freeze a Python file (it's just a basic hello world program) cx_Freeze creates an exe along with a bunch of other things. When I run the exe it gives me a "cannot find module _frozen_importlib_external" error. I am using Python 3.5 and running Windows 10. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I had the same problem.
The issue here is that cx_freeze can't see the import and will not embed the package _frozen_importlib_external.
Change the file cx_Freeze/finder.py with the diff given at https://bitbucket.org/anthony_tuininga/cx_freeze/pull-requests/83/python-35-compatibility-for-cx_freeze-4x/diff and then build and install cx_Freeze again.

Python 3.3 + pygame installation

First, I am aware about the existance of a similar older thread, but honestly, I would not ask, if I found any help there.
Being a simple coding enthusiast, I want to playback media in using python. Since there seems to be no simple solution, a lot of people recommend pygame (or pyglet). So, using win 7 x64, I revert to 32bit Python 3.3.5 and download the presumably correct version of pygame from the super secret download site (pygame-1.9.2a0.win32-py3.3). Both installations work seemingly fine, pygame can locate python (path is set correctly), and finishes its install without issues, yet it seems not to install anything. I cannot import pygame, there are no installed libraries to be found. In pure frustration I tried different iterations of versions, python 2.7, x64, older pygame versions. Nothing worked. I suspect, there is something going on, that may not be connected to the pygame installation, but I don't know what.
import pygame
returns
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/***/pygame_test.py", line 1, in <module>
import pygame
ImportError: No module named 'pygame'
Try using Python 3.2.3 instead of 3.3, along with Pygame for that version: that's what I did, and it works flawlessly on the same system as yours.
You should check up with your installation. Are you sure you installed properly. I have checked on 3.4/3.6/2.7 all works fine. Just install the correct binaries based on your system from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/.
Download pygame using pip, to be sure that the module is placed in the correct path. Else, put the pygame folder in .\pythonX\Lib\site-packages\. Verify the folder is named pygame and not for example pygame-1.9.2a0.win32-py3.3.

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