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mohamed i.1's avatar
mohamed i.1
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

problem with frozen executable python program

when using dropbox api sdk with python it's work very well with python script
but when converting this script to executable using cx_freeze i get this error
RESTSocketError:Error connecting to
"https://api-content.dropbox.com/1/files/auto/data.txt":SSL certificate error:[Errno2] No such file or directory

every time i check the file in dropbox and i found it
please what is the problem

thanks in advance

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  • Kannan G.1's avatar
    Kannan G.1
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    11 years ago

    The SDK includes a file named "trusted-certs.crt". In "dropbox/rest.py", we determine the location of that file using pkg_resources.resource_filename.

    I'm not sure how cx_freeze deals with these kinds of things. How did you run cx_freeze?

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