Hi,

I tried to do freeze.py for my script that uses ElementTree.
But got the this error:

  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/__init__.py", line 45, in <module>
    _xmlplus.__path__.extend(__path__)
  AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'extend'

The reason seems that _xmlplus.__path__ is a string
after freeze.py.

I fixed it by changing the import to:

            try:
                _xmlplus.__path__.extend(__path__)
                sys.modules[__name__] = _xmlplus
            except AttributeError:
                pass

This might not be the correct solution but it works for me. I do not
really now
how the __path__ variable works in a freezed environment.

Best regards

I think nobody really cares about freeze any more -- it isn't maintained.

Should freeze be removed if it's no longer maintained? Freeze is partly
used by py2exe and py2app. Maybe the maintainers of the apps can step in
and maintain the parts of the freeze api they require. The rest could
then be deprecated for Python 2.6 and removed from 3.0.

Why don't you ask that question on python-dev? Maybe someone volunteers!

I still think the __init__ file should be changed and use
the extend_path function instead of extend. 


Se below for answer I got on the python list.


The extend_path function (found in the pkgutil standard module) can handle  
this.
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pkgutil.html

-- 
Gabriel Genellina

Nobody seems to care enough.

can this be closed?  I'd do it myself if I had the triage bit :)