tim,
thank you very much for your post. it helped me sort out a problem i was
facing for the past 3 days.
the most important clue was the use of os.path.join() for prescribing the
path to the data file.
best,
sam
On Tuesday, November 26, 2013 12:52:56 AM UTC+5:30, Tim Pierson wrote:
>
> Figured it out. See below for an example of how to load resources files
> from _MEIPASS. My data files were in a ../data directory and my final exe
> entry in the spec file was this:
>
> exe = EXE(pyz,
> Tree('C:\\full\\path\\to\\data', prefix='data\\'),
> a.scripts,
> a.binaries,
> a.zipfiles,
> a.datas,
> debug=False,
> strip=None,
> upx=True,
> console=True
>
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, November 22, 2013 7:24:22 PM UTC-5, Tim Pierson wrote:
>>
>> Happy Friday everyone.
>> I've tried numerous ways to get data files (--I have two Qt .ui files
>> loaded via PyQt.uic--)into an .exe and I can't seem to pull it off.
>>
>> My last idea, following a previous post in this list, was to put the .ui
>> files in a \data directory and then add this to my .spec file like so:
>>
>> exe = EXE(pyz,
>> Tree("data", prefix="data"),
>> a.scripts,
>> a.binaries,
>> a.zipfiles,
>> a.datas,
>> name='TagBrowser.exe',
>> debug=False,
>> strip=None,
>> upx=True,
>> console=True
>>
>>
>> rebuilding with the spec file however throws this: "The system cannot
>> find the path specified: 'data/*.*'
>> adding more or different "\"s doesn't change things.
>>
>>
>> the .ui's are called from my main.py like this:
>>
>> def resource_path(relative):
>> if hasattr(sys, "_MEIPASS"):
>> return os.path.join(sys._MEIPASS, relative)
>> return os.path.join(relative)
>>
>> uic.loadUi(resource_path(os.path.join('data','loginQt.ui')), self)
>>
>>
>> I've also tried adapting this recipe:
>> http://www.pyinstaller.org/wiki/Recipe/CollectDatafiles<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pyinstaller.org%2Fwiki%2FRecipe%2FCollectDatafiles&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEfFQk5lqrX1f7mhXY1iXUJhzdlKg>
>>
>> But no go.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
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