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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list