'pathlib' obsolete backport of a standard library package and incompatible with PyInstaller

[Dionysis Boukouvalas]

Hello!

I'm working on a Windows 64 system. I'm running python on Jupyter notebook through Anaconda. I succesfully transformed that .ipynb file to a .py one.

I also successfully installed PyInstaller by running “pip install pyinstaller” in the Anaconda prompt.

When I entered “pyinstaller game.py” I got the error message: "The 'pathlib' package is an obsolete backport of a standard library package and is incompatible with PyInstaller."

When I checked the pathlib version with “pip install --upgrade pathlib” I got the message “Requirement already satisfied”. Anaconda and PyInstaller are also up to date.

Chat GPT suggested that “the issue you're encountering with PyInstaller is likely not related to the version of the 'pathlib' package itself. It could be a compatibility problem between PyInstaller and another package or dependency in your Python program.”

What can I do?

[Chris Barker]

First of all, I would try cleaning up your conda environment.  

Mixing pip and conda installs can get ugly.  

You want to start from scratch, and always try to install a package from conda first, before you install with pip. 

And conda-forge can be very helpful.

NOTE: I’d try making a conda environment just for this app — keep tho gs clean. 

Second: the oaib back port should only be avaiad for old versions of Python (pre 3.5??) — recent versions have pain built in, so you should not have a patron package installed at all.

 Not sure how it got there, but a clean conda install may take care of all this for you.

Good luck. 

Finally, I’ve had some issues with using PyInstakker by with some conda packages - it’s been a while, but you may have issues with dynamic libraries.

-CHB 

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[bwoodsend]

Uninstall pathlib. There's an actually maintained version already in the standard library. The one on PyPI, as the error message says, is obsolete.