Taming RecursionError

gistfile1.txt

0) Prepare a clean environment

python -m venv pyivenv
cd pyivenv

source ./bin/activate    # Posix bash/zsh
.\Scripts\activate.bat   # Windows cmd.exe
.\Scripts\Activate.ps1   # Windows PowerShell

pip install -U pip  # upgrade pip

export PYTHONHASHSEED=0   # Posix
set PYTHONHASHSEED=0      # Windows cmd.exe
$env:PYTHONHASHSEED = "0" # Windows PowerShell
# verify hash randomization is disabled
python -c "import sys; assert sys.flags.hash_randomization == 0"

# install PyInstaller
pip install https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/archive/develop.tar.gz

# go to you project and install its requirements
cd /path/to/you/application
pip install -r ....

pip list > pip-list.txt
pip freeze > pip-freeze.txt

Now comes the important part:

1) Generate a .spec-file (if you don't have one already):

     pyi-makespec main.py

2) Verify pyinstaller runs into RecursionError in this setup:

    pyinstaller main.spec

  If this does *not* fail, ensure the .spec-file does *not*
  `sys.setrecursionlimit()`

3) Please try to generate a as minimal as possible version of you application,
   which will still make PyInstaller run into RecursionError. Ideally the
   application only consists of on import statement and still fails to freeze.

   Please, please take your time for doing so! The TRACE-output you will
   generate in the next steps will be HUGE and hard to analyze anyway. Please
   help keeping the data small. Otherwise I will have barely no chance to find
   the error.

3) Run PyInstaller in TRACE mode, redirecting the
   output into a file. The outout will be huge, several thousand lines,
   so you really want to redirect the output into a file::

     pyinstaller main.spec --log=TRACE > failing.log 2>&1

4) Now iterative try to find a *small* new recursion limit which will make
   PyInstaller pass. Add this line to the .spec-file

     sys.setrecursionlimit(sys.getrecursionlimit() + 10)

   then run `pyinstaller main.spec` again. If it fails, increase the number,
   if it passes, decrease the number. Repeat until you have a lower bound (in
   steps 10) where PyInstaller passes.

   With this lower bound run

      pyinstaller main.spec --log=TRACE > passing.log 2>&1

5) Zip all the log-files and send them to my via email. You can find my E-Mail
   at http://www.pyinstaller.org/support.html

      zip trace-logs.zip pip-list.txt pip-freeze.txt failing.log passing.log

   I only need these log-file, nothing of the stuff built.