On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Mark Summerfield <l...@qtrac.plus.com> writes: > if getattr(sys, "frozen"): # ‘getattr’ will return None by default
No it won't. > Lastly, it's slightly more Pythonic to execute the normal path > unconditionally, and let it raise an exception if there's a problem:: > > try: > executable = sys.executable > except AttributeError: > executable = __file__ > path = os.path.dirname(executable) Sure, but sys.executable always exists. sys.frozen doesn't, and the existence or nonexistence is apparently meaningful; so your code does something different than the original problem statement. Also, if that weren't the case, I'd really replace that try-except with getattr(sys, 'executable', __file__) -- Devin -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list