AttributeError crash on find_module

[blobb999]

Describe the bug

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "SaS_on_Twitter.py", line 14, in <module>
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod02_importers.py", line 352, in exec_module
  File "snscrape\modules\__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
  File "snscrape\modules\__init__.py", line 13, in _import_modules
AttributeError: 'FrozenImporter' object has no attribute 'find_module'
[3260] Failed to execute script 'SaS_on_Twitter' due to unhandled exception!

How to reproduce

Compiled with:
pyinstaller --onefile --hidden-import snscrape.modules SaS_on_Twitter.py

Expected behaviour

it should just run like in idle, but as stand-alone exe

Screenshots and recordings

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Operating system

Windows 10

Python version: output of python3 --version

3.8 or 3.11.24

snscrape version: output of snscrape --version

0.6.1.20230314

Scraper

Twitter-User

How are you using snscrape?

Module (import snscrape.modules.something in Python code)

Backtrace

No response

Log output

No response

Dump of locals

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Additional context

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[JustAnotherArchivist]

Interesting. PyInstaller recently removed PEP 302 support in pyinstaller/pyinstaller@d59c96a, first released in version 5.8.0. Presumably, if you used an older version, it should work.

There is still something to be improved in snscrape though. find_module was deprecated by PEP 451 and is officially deprecated in importlib.abc.Finder since Python 3.10. This should be replaced. Thanks, I was unaware of that.

[Rapid1898-code]

So the only solution currently is to use a pyinstaller version < 5.8.0 when i want to create an executeble with snscrape.
Do i understand this correct?

[JustAnotherArchivist]

That is correct.
I briefly looked into replacing this recently, but it's more complicated than I currently have time for.

[JustAnotherArchivist]

As @xts-bit reported in #1038, this also affects Python 3.12 where find_module has been removed.

[SureshS03]

Interesting. PyInstaller recently removed PEP 302 support in pyinstaller/pyinstaller@d59c96a, first released in version 5.8.0. Presumably, if you used an older version, it should work.

There is still something to be improved in snscrape though. find_module was deprecated by PEP 451 and is officially deprecated in importlib.abc.Finder since Python 3.10. This should be replaced. Thanks, I was unaware of that.

hey even i installed pyinstaller but its shows the same error

[cyterat]

For me this worked just fine:

• python=3.10
• pyinstaller==5.7.0
• snscrape==0.7.0.20230622