Re: where do I put resources (images, audio files) when I wrote Python program?
Piotrek wrote:
that? I think about puting these files in /usr/share/myprogram and then
reading it the normal way (so the path /usr/share/myprogram would be just
hardwired in my program). Is it the way one usually does it in Python
program or is there any more sofisticated way?
Just keep them in your sources, and create an empty __init__.py file in
the images directory.
Then install setuptools and use the pkg_resources module. It will work
even if your application is installed as an egg through easy_install,
possibly zipped.
To open a resource file:
f = pkg_resources.resource_stream('path.to.package', 'resource.png')
f.read()
Return a readable file-like object for the specified resource; it
may be an actual file, a StringIO, or some similar object. The stream is
in binary mode, in the sense that whatever bytes are in the resource
will be read as-is.
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Re: Re: where do I put resources (images, audio files) when I wrote Python program?
Gabriel Genellina wrote: For those read-only resources I'd use pkgutil.get_data (instead of manually parsing __file__): http://docs.python.org/library/pkgutil.html#pkgutil.get_data It's easier to manage when someone later decide to install the package as an egg file, or distribute it using py2exe. Quoting the documentation: The function returns a binary string that is the contents of the specified resource. For packages located in the filesystem, which have already been imported, this is the rough equivalent of: d = os.path.dirname(sys.modules[package].__file__) data = open(os.path.join(d, resource), 'rb').read() return data Thanks Gabriel, I hadn't come across get_data() yet. DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
where do I put resources (images, audio files) when I wrote Python program?
Hello, I write a Python program. It will contain some images (in .png format), some audio files (as .ogg) etc. Now I think where should my installer put these files and how should I access them. What is the normal Python way of doing that? I think about puting these files in /usr/share/myprogram and then reading it the normal way (so the path /usr/share/myprogram would be just hardwired in my program). Is it the way one usually does it in Python program or is there any more sofisticated way? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: where do I put resources (images, audio files) when I wrote Python program?
On Jul 27, 12:43 pm, Piotrek niedzi...@gazeta.pl wrote: Hello, I write a Python program. It will contain some images (in .png format), some audio files (as .ogg) etc. Now I think where should my installer put these files and how should I access them. What is the normal Python way of doing that? I think about puting these files in /usr/share/myprogram and then reading it the normal way (so the path /usr/share/myprogram would be just hardwired in my program). Is it the way one usually does it in Python program or is there any more sofisticated way? Usually the preferred method is either distutils (http:// docs.python.org/library/distutils.html#module-distutils) or setuptools (http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools). Either of these will allow you to create source (.tar.gz) or binary distributions that can be installed relatively easily on a target machine. Good luck, Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: where do I put resources (images, audio files) when I wrote Python program?
Piotrek wrote: Hello, I write a Python program. It will contain some images (in .png format), some audio files (as .ogg) etc. Now I think where should my installer put these files and how should I access them. What is the normal Python way of doing that? I think about puting these files in /usr/share/myprogram and then reading it the normal way (so the path /usr/share/myprogram would be just hardwired in my program). Is it the way one usually does it in Python program or is there any more sofisticated way? I think this question is mostly independent of the issue of what's used to actually install the files. My answer is to put read-only files right with the py* files, and writable files in the user's space. In the former case, you can find the files by parsing __file__ for one of your modules. In the latter case, it's system dependent. But I'd start with a single file which is put in a conventional place (for your target OS). That will be a configuration file (preferences files), which specifies, among other things, where everything else will be written. Somebody else will have to tell you what the Unix convention would be. In the case of Windows, the first file would just be a registry entry. And I wouldn't write any of the actual files till the user had configured things, either during installation or during the first run (with a File-Preferences menu setup). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: where do I put resources (images, audio files) when I wrote Python program?
En Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:53:12 -0300, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org escribió: Piotrek wrote: I write a Python program. It will contain some images (in .png format), some audio files (as .ogg) etc. Now I think where should my installer put these files and how should I access them. What is the normal Python way of doing that? I think about puting these files in /usr/share/myprogram and then reading it the normal way (so the path /usr/share/myprogram would be just hardwired in my program). Is it the way one usually does it in Python program or is there any more sofisticated way? My answer is to put read-only files right with the py* files, and writable files in the user's space. In the former case, you can find the files by parsing __file__ for one of your modules. In the latter case, it's system dependent. For those read-only resources I'd use pkgutil.get_data (instead of manually parsing __file__): http://docs.python.org/library/pkgutil.html#pkgutil.get_data It's easier to manage when someone later decide to install the package as an egg file, or distribute it using py2exe. Quoting the documentation: The function returns a binary string that is the contents of the specified resource. For packages located in the filesystem, which have already been imported, this is the rough equivalent of: d = os.path.dirname(sys.modules[package].__file__) data = open(os.path.join(d, resource), 'rb').read() return data -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
