I posted this on stackoverflow because I thought it was a pyinstaller issue, but I'm wondering if it's really a python-markdown issue.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59052079/pyinstaller-and-python-markdown-importerror-no-module-named-extra

I'm running into an issue trying to get python-markdown to work in pyinstaller. I have this code to demonstrate the issue in file called test.py:

import markdown

testMarkdown = "blahdy blah blah"
print(markdown.markdown(testMarkdown))
print(markdown.markdown(testMarkdown, extensions=["extra"]))

When I run it using python3, I get as desired:

(venv) C:\Users\madgrizzle>python3 test.py
<p>blahdy blah blah</p>
<p>blahdy blah blah</p>

I run pyinstaller as follows:

(venv) C:\Users\madgrizzle>pyinstaller test.py

and run the resulting code, I get the following:

(venv) C:\Users\madgrizzle\dist\test>test
<p>blahdy blah blah</p>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 5, in <module>
  File "lib\site-packages\markdown\core.py", line 390, in markdown
  File "lib\site-packages\markdown\core.py", line 100, in __init__
  File "lib\site-packages\markdown\core.py", line 126, in registerExtensions
  File "lib\site-packages\markdown\core.py", line 166, in build_extension
  File "importlib\__init__.py", line 126, in import_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 985, in _gcd_import
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 968, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 955, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ImportError: No module named 'extra'
[14432] Failed to execute script test

I tried to rebuild using:

(venv) C:\Users\madgrizzle>pyinstaller --hidden-import="markdown.extensions.extra" test.py

but I get the same error message.

Is there something special that's needed for including markdown extensions?

Additional Information:

It appears that the 'extra' extension might be causing the problem. Per https://python-markdown.github.io/extensions/extra/, 'extra' is a compilation of multiple extensions, including fenced_code and tables. If I just try to use the tables extension by itself, pyinstaller works IF I use the full-name as follows:

markdown.markdown(testMarkdown, extensions=["markdown.extensions.tables"])

If instead of using 'markdown.extensions.tables' I use 'markdown.extensions.extra', compile using pyinstaller, and run it, it responds back with a missing "fenced_code" module. Basically, it seems I have to avoid 'extra' with pyinstaller.