Errors when running .exe produced by pyinstaller with conda

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R_de_Bruin | 2021-04-10 08:12:08 UTC | #1

When using conda, make sure to use the pyinstaller from the conda-forge channel instead of the one from conda. Conda gives you version 3.6 which for me did not work with the examples given here. conda-forge gives version 4.4 which does work.

so:

python 
conda install pyinstaller -c conda-forge
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