Publishing Error

[hotshotiguana]

When I run my script using the Vizard 4.0 Enterprise console, I do not get any errors, but when I compile and publish the script to an EXE file and run the script it shuts down without any warning.

I researched it a bit and found the exact line that is causing this problem:
import datetime
open_date = datetime.datetime.strptime("2012-04-04", "%Y-%M-%d").date()

Does anyone have any idea why this line would work in the Vizard console but not in my published exe file?

Thanks,
Chris