Problem with pyproj 3.4.0 , package not found

[aymondebroglie]

Description of the issue

I try to run pyinstaller on the following simple test.py file

import pyproj

print(pyproj.__version__)

With pyproj : 3.3.1

pyinstaller test.py; ./dist/test/test -> 3.3.1

With pyproj 3.4.0 I get the following error message

  File "test.py", line 1, in <module>
    import pyproj
  File "PyInstaller/loader/pyimod02_importers.py", line 499, in exec_module
  File "pyproj/__init__.py", line 70, in <module>
  File "importlib/metadata.py", line 569, in version
  File "importlib/metadata.py", line 542, in distribution
  File "importlib/metadata.py", line 196, in from_name
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: pyproj 

Context information (for bug reports)

• Output of pyinstaller --version: 5.6.2

• Version of Python: 3.9.12

• Platform: Linux (Ubuntu)

• How you installed Python: Through conda

• Did you also try this on another platform? Does it work there? Did not try

• try the latest development version, using the following command:

pip install https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/archive/develop.zip

same error

• follow all the instructions in our "If Things Go Wrong" Guide
  (https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/wiki/If-Things-Go-Wrong) and

Make sure everything is packaged correctly

• start with clean installation
• use the latest development version
• Run your frozen program from a command window (shell) — instead of double-clicking on it
• Package your program in --onedir mode
• Package without UPX, say: use the option --noupx or set upx=False in your .spec-file
• Repackage you application in verbose/debug mode. For this, pass the option --debug to pyi-makespec or pyinstaller or use EXE(..., debug=1, ...) in your .spec file.

A minimal example program which shows the error

import pyproj

print(pyproj.__version__)

Stacktrace / full error message

Running in debug mode, full logs attached
bug-pyproj-log.txt

Please also see https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/wiki/How-to-Report-Bugs
for more about what would use to solve the issue.

[rokm]

See pyinstaller/pyinstaller-hooks-contrib#505 - looks like we aren't going to be fixing this, but rather wait for next pyproj release.

[rokm]

As a work-around, you can add --copy-metadata pyproj to your PyInstaller command.

[aymondebroglie]

Thanks you for the quick answer , the work around seems to be perfect !

[rokm]

This should now also work out-of-the-box with latest release of pyinstaller-hooks-contrib.