Failure to import zipextimporter with error "No module named '_memimporter'"

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I have been messing with this for the past couple of days:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78182723/does-memimporter-still-exist-in-py2exe
• mingw-w64-x86_64-python-py2exe seems broken - _memimporter.pyd missing · Issue #20382 · msys2/MINGW-packages

... and finally installed Python 3.11 via Microsoft Store, and tried this:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>python3 --version
Python 3.11.8

C:\WINDOWS\system32>python3 -m pip install py2exe
Collecting py2exe
  Downloading py2exe-0.13.0.1-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl.metadata (7.3 kB)
Collecting cachetools (from py2exe)
  Downloading cachetools-5.3.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (5.3 kB)
Collecting pefile (from py2exe)
  Downloading pefile-2023.2.7-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (1.4 kB)
Downloading py2exe-0.13.0.1-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl (154 kB)
   ---------------------------------------- 154.6/154.6 kB 1.9 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Downloading cachetools-5.3.3-py3-none-any.whl (9.3 kB)
Downloading pefile-2023.2.7-py3-none-any.whl (71 kB)
   ---------------------------------------- 71.8/71.8 kB ? eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: pefile, cachetools, py2exe
Successfully installed cachetools-5.3.3 pefile-2023.2.7 py2exe-0.13.0.1

C:\WINDOWS\system32>python3 -m pip install py2exe

C:\WINDOWS\system32>python3 -c 'import zipextimporter'
  File "<string>", line 1
    'import
    ^
SyntaxError: unterminated string literal (detected at line 1)

C:\WINDOWS\system32>python3 -c "import zipextimporter"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\sd\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.11_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python311\site-packages\zipextimporter.py", line 51, in <module>
    import _memimporter
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_memimporter'

So - is _memimporter still a thing or not? The page I took it from, https://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/TroubleshootingImportErrors has last edit in 2011, so I cannot really tell ... If it is still a thing, how do I do import _memimporter and import zipextimporter?

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EDIT: note that the MINGW64 package build got fixed 2024-03-21, and now there is a _memexporter.pyd in that packaging of py2exe (mingw-w64-x86_64-python-py2exe); the maintainer there noted in msys2/MINGW-packages#20382 (comment) :

I found another workaround. I renamed setup_zipextimporter.py to setup.py and build zipextimporter wheel file. It has the _memimporter pyd file.

It seems currently the vanilla Python 3 Windows build of py2exe is still broken as described above; maybe the above will help to get the vanilla build fixed as well?