I created a script that uses inquirer, but when I created the executable, the importation doesn’t work.

Simplified the code to just the importation.

import inquirer

And generate the executable with the command.

pyinstaller --onefile --hidden-import=inquirer .test.py

and

pyinstaller --onefile --hidden-import=inquirer --hidden-import=readchar .test.py

Error exe:

.test.exe                                                      
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "importlibmetadata__init__.py", line 563, in from_name
StopIteration

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 1, in <module>
  File "PyInstallerloaderpyimod02_importers.py", line 419, in exec_module
  File "inquirer__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
  File "PyInstallerloaderpyimod02_importers.py", line 419, in exec_module
  File "inquirerprompt.py", line 2, in <module>
  File "PyInstallerloaderpyimod02_importers.py", line 419, in exec_module
  File "inquirerrender__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
  File "PyInstallerloaderpyimod02_importers.py", line 419, in exec_module
  File "inquirerrenderconsole__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
  File "PyInstallerloaderpyimod02_importers.py", line 419, in exec_module
  File "inquirerevents.py", line 1, in <module>
  File "PyInstallerloaderpyimod02_importers.py", line 419, in exec_module
  File "readchar__init__.py", line 6, in <module>
  File "importlibmetadata__init__.py", line 1009, in version
  File "importlibmetadata__init__.py", line 982, in distribution
  File "importlibmetadata__init__.py", line 565, in from_name
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for readchar
[23340] Failed to execute script 'test' due to unhandled exception!

I tried with Python versions 3.11.9 and 3.12.1.

venv yes

inquirer 3.2.4