Hi all, I have a large python codebase developed inside PyCharm. I want to use PyInstaller for obvious reasons; however, I'm struggling with relative paths for data files due to the project code file hierarchy.
The file hierarchy was a usual top-down structure, i.e., the point of execution is within a file found in the project root folder, with the additional python files stored in a sensible folder, *(please pay particular attention to the version.txt file on the same level as the Main.py file)* e.g., Project/ --Main.py --version.txt --Engines/ ----somefile.py --Controllers/ ----somefile.py --Entities/ ----somefile.py A year ago, I built a GUI front end whilst maintaining the console-based point of execution. The GUI point of execution is within MainGUI.py. But that file is not at the project root. It looks a bit like this: Project/ --Main.py --version.txt --GUI/ ----MainGUI.py --Engines/ ----somefile.py --Controllers/ ----somefile.py --Entities/ ----somefile.py Inside MainGUI.py, I have the code to open the "../version.txt" file: with open("../version.txt") as file: version = file.readline().strip() I navigate to the Project/GUI folder in the PyCharm Terminal and execute pyinstaller MainGUI.py --onefile It seems to work until I try and execute the built MainGUI.exe. I'm given the error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "MainGUI.py", line 10, in <module> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '../version.txt' [17232] Failed to execute script 'MainGUI' due to unhandled exception! I could move the version.txt file to be on the same level as MainGUI.py, but this was a reduced example. There are lots of data files referenced using relative paths. I would be grateful for any assistance. Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyInstaller" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pyinstaller+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pyinstaller/5e84c822-3872-452c-bea9-7851d94a32e9n%40googlegroups.com.