1920, 'LoadLibraryExW', 'The file cannot be accessed by the system.

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Zapel1

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Jul 20, 2020, 3:01:16 AM7/20/20

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Every time i want to turn a .py into an .exe it says:

D:\Programma's\Python>pyinstaller test.py

67 INFO: PyInstaller: 4.0.dev0

67 INFO: Python: 3.8.4

68 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0

86 INFO: wrote D:\Programma's\Python\test.spec

89 INFO: UPX is not available.

169 INFO: Extending PYTHONPATH with paths

["D:\\Programma's\\Python", "D:\\Programma's\\Python"]

176 INFO: checking Analysis

176 INFO: Building Analysis because Analysis-00.toc is non existent

177 INFO: Initializing module dependency graph...

183 INFO: Caching module graph hooks...

205 INFO: Analyzing base_library.zip ...

2625 INFO: Processing pre-find module path hook distutils from 'C:\\Users\\USER\\AppData\\Local\\Packages\\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\\LocalCache\\local-packages\\Python38\\site-packages\\PyInstaller\\hooks\\pre_find_module_path\\hook-distutils.py'.

2628 INFO: distutils: retargeting to non-venv dir 'C:\\Program Files\\WindowsApps\\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_3.8.1264.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\\lib'

4116 INFO: Caching module dependency graph...

4605 INFO: running Analysis Analysis-00.toc

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\win32ctypes\pywin32\pywintypes.py", line 35, in pywin32error

yield

return _dll._LoadLibraryEx(fileName, 0, flags)

File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\win32ctypes\core\ctypes\_util.py", line 42, in check_null

raise make_error(function, function_name)

OSError: [WinError 1920] The file cannot be accessed by the system.

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_3.8.1264.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main

return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,

File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_3.8.1264.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code

exec(code, run_globals)

File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\Scripts\pyinstaller.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in <module>

File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\PyInstaller\__main__.py", line 114, in run

run_build(pyi_config, spec_file, **vars(args))

File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\PyInstaller\__main__.py", line 65, in run_build

PyInstaller.building.build_main.main(pyi_config, spec_file, **kwargs)

File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 716, in main

build(specfile, kw.get('distpath'), kw.get('workpath'), kw.get('clean_build'))

File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 663, in build

exec(code, spec_namespace)

File "D:\Programma's\Python\test.spec", line 6, in <module>

a = Analysis(['test.py'],

File "C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python38\site-packages\PyInstaller\building\build_main.py", line 241, in __init__

self.__postinit__()

self.assemble()

self.binaries.extend(bindepend.Dependencies([('', python, '')],

for ftocnm, fn in getAssemblyFiles(pth, manifest, redirects):

for assembly in getAssemblies(pth):

res = GetManifestResources(pth)

return winresource.GetResources(filename, [RT_MANIFEST], names, languages)

hsrc = win32api.LoadLibraryEx(filename, 0, LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE)

return _dll._LoadLibraryEx(fileName, 0, flags)

File "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_3.8.1264.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\contextlib.py", line 131, in __exit__

self.gen.throw(type, value, traceback)

raise error(exception.winerror, exception.function, exception.strerror)

win32ctypes.pywin32.pywintypes.error: (1920, 'LoadLibraryExW', 'The file cannot be accessed by the system.')

Can anyone tell me what i can do to make it work? Because i have searched everywhere but couldn't find an answer that worked.

legorooj

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Jul 20, 2020, 6:29:40 AM7/20/20

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Please try using a virtual environment. This error is because you're using python from the windows store, and that has permissions issues. We can't offer support for the windows store version because to fix the permissions issues you need to mess with the registry heavily and change ownership of vital windows folders, which can break stuff if done improperly.

A virtual environment is the only recommended fix which doesn't involve reinstalling python from another source.

Legorooj

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Zapel1

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Jul 20, 2020, 11:36:11 AM7/20/20

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Thanks, i didn't know i still had the microsoft store version installed on my pc. When i uninstalled that one and installed the correct files from python.org it worked. thank you very much kind sir.