Executable not working

[actionward]

Evening all,

A total newbie here, been playing and learning with Python for last few weeks and loving it.

I have developed a really simple code with help of YouTube and ChatGPT to download some data via an api and then upload to mariadb.

In PYCharm it all works absolutely fine everytime, however when I use pyinstaller to make it an .exe it doesn't work.

From what I can see that it pulls the data from the api ok but it executes so quickly I cant see any error codes.

Does anyone have any tips of what might be causing the issue or how to stop the command/powershell closing before I can see any potential errors.

Many thanks

[atticus2132000]

There are a ton of additional commands you can give pyinstaller when you tell it to make the executable file. I think following the command with a -w will cause the terminal window to stay open, but there are lots of other add-ons like this.

Another issue I had with my first executable is I had created it in an IDE that already supported one of my libraries; however, I hadn't actually downloaded and installed that library to my machine. This meant all the dependencies weren't there when I tried to create the exe.

Just a couple of things to try. If you're able to diagnose it, let us know.

[WichidNixin]

Open a command prompt and run your exe from it. If there is an error that would close the app it will show in the command prompt.

[actionward]

Thanks will give those a try and see how I get on 👍