On Aug 31, 9:07 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> wrote: > koranthala wrote: > > Hi, > > I am creating a python application using py2exe. I am facing a > > problem which I am not sure how to solve. > > The application contains many other files associated with it - > > like icons, config files etc. The executable can be in any directory. > > If the user creates a shortcut to the executable to run in desktop, > > the program fails - saying that the icon image cannot be found. But I > > can run the application properly, if I run it from application > > directory - where all the other icons, config files etc are kept. > > How is such issues usually solved? I do not want to hardcode the > > paths of icons and store the icons in those paths. I guess, we can > > change the directory to the application directory before running the > > application. (in __init__.py ???) But how do we find the current > > directory in that case? I am completely at sea in solving this. > > This looks to be a very common issue. How is this usually solved? > > You can get the location of a module via > > module.__file__ > > This can be used to find a file relative to e.g. the toplevel module/package > of your application. > > The pkg_resources-module of setuptools encapsulates that even into a stream > and file-name api. > > Diez
Thank you Diez. It was what I was looking for. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
