Using PyInstaller Splash Displays Imports

[grinchify]

How can I prevent such statements (import statements that are used in my code by the code itself or another module) from being shown on the splash page? I am not looking for it to be disabled as I do update it within my code, but just looking for it to not display the imports

Using the following expression to compile

python -m PyInstaller --clean --noconfirm grinch_bot.spec

[rokm]

In onefile build, splash displays the files it extracts. In the current implementation, there is no way to disable that.

That said, PyInstaller by default should not not collect .pyc files from __pycache__ - unless you (or a misbehaving hook) call collect_all or collect_data_files with include_py_files=True...

[asmaier]

I think this should be documented also at https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/spec-files.html#PyInstaller.building.splash.Splash.__init__ under text_default. I set text_default='Loading....' and was confused, why it didn't show up.

[grinchify]

Why isnt there any way to disable that? How can I go about editing the code itself to disable that.

[rokm]

Why isnt there any way to disable that?

Because up until now, nobody took an issue with it.

How can I go about editing the code itself to disable that.

Disable this line:

pyinstaller/bootloader/src/pyi_launch.c

Line 332 in a732e7b

pyi_splash_update_prg(splash_status, ptoc);

and recompile the bootloader.

[grinchify]

Issue still persists, does not seem like it worked.

[rokm]

Have you recompiled the bootloader, and then rebuilt your application so that the modifed bootloader is used? (Unless you installed PyInstaller from source in editable mode, you will likely need to reinstall it after compiling the bootloader).

[grinchify]

How do I check / know if the modified bootloader is used?

I did the following steps

git clone https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller
( I renamed the pyinstaller file)
cd pyinstaller_raw_code, then cd bootloader/src/pyi_launch.c
Commented out pyi_splash_update_prg(splash_status, ptoc);
python ./waf distclean all
pip install .

[grinchify]

Looks like the distclean all raises some errors and outputs a config file. Looking into it, give me a few minutes