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Eric Pauley
Eric Pauley

Reputation: 1779

Get path to exe file on py2exe

I am writing a little gui application with Tkinter, which requires me to have a path to icon files. I am planning on embedding the file into the exe that I make with py2exe, and then retrieving it from there. The only problem is that I need to know where that file is. Does anyone know a way of getting the currently running exe file/path? Thanks for the help in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1709

Answers (3)

il0ng
il0ng

Reputation: 194

A couple of useful links for people coming across this question. The latter provides a nice example -

http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/Py2exeEnvironment

http://www.py2exe.org/index.cgi/WhereAmI

Upvotes: 1

Eric Pauley
Eric Pauley

Reputation: 1779

Oops! I found out the answer! sys.executable should do the trick. It returns the path and filename of the currently running exe, although I must test to see that it works with py2exe.

Upvotes: 0

Steven Sproat
Steven Sproat

Reputation: 4578

_file = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0])
path = os.path.dirname(_file)

Upvotes: 5

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