Issue #392

Workaround for a pycparser issue.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cffi/cparser.py b/cffi/cparser.py
index 1fc0ec6..df6303d 100644
--- a/cffi/cparser.py
+++ b/cffi/cparser.py
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     lock = None
 
+def _workaround_for_static_import_finders():
+    # Issue #392: packaging tools like cx_Freeze can not find these
+    # because pycparser uses exec dynamic import.  This is an obscure
+    # workaround.  This function is never called.
+    import pycparser.yacctab
+    import pycparser.lextab
+
 CDEF_SOURCE_STRING = "<cdef source string>"
 _r_comment = re.compile(r"/\*.*?\*/|//([^\n\\]|\\.)*?$",
                         re.DOTALL | re.MULTILINE)