no console option causes: Failed to execute script 'main' due to unhandled exception: maximum recursion depth exceeded

[Glen Rubin]

If I set the console option to False in my spec file I cannot run the 'compiled' executable and instead get the error:  Failed to execute script 'main' due to unhandled exception: maximum recursion depth exceeded

The traceback is very very very long but, looks like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1103, in emit
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'write'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1103, in emit
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'write'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1103, in emit
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'write'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1103, in emit
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'write'

This repeats a few thousand times and then prints:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1103, in emit
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'write'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "kivy\logger.py", line 248, in emit
  File "kivy\logger.py", line 222, in _configure
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1477, in info
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1624, in _log
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1634, in handle
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1696, in callHandlers
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 968, in handle
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1108, in emit
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1021, in handleError
  File "kivy\logger.py", line 338, in write
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1489, in warning
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1624, in _log
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1634, in handle
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1696, in callHandlers
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 968, in handle
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1108, in emit
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1021, in handleError
  File "kivy\logger.py", line 338, in write
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1489, in warning
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1624, in _log
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1634, in handle
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1696, in callHandlers
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 968, in handle
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1108, in emit
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1021, in handleError
  File "kivy\logger.py", line 338, in write
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1489, in warning
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1624, in _log
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1634, in handle
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1696, in callHandlers
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 968, in handle
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1108, in emit
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1021, in handleError
  File "kivy\logger.py", line 338, in write
  File "logging\__init__.py", line 1489, in warning

... and so on