Yes, but I don't need the path to the temp folder. I need the path where the exe was launched from. In this case, the exe is on drive E:\ so I want to retrieve that path.
On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 15:19:59 UTC+2, Mahmoodreza Aarabi wrote: > > yes > wheb you run exe file pyinstaller create _MEIPASS in sys. > in run-time you should add this path to os.environ as a path > > then exe file can detect it as root folder > > > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Christiaan Maks > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I thought the _MEIPASS var is the location of the temporary folder? >> >> >> On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 14:30:05 UTC+2, Mahmoodreza Aarabi wrote: >> >>> add your _MEIPASS to os.environ >>> ;) >>> >>> >>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Christiaan Maks <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I want to run my --onefile .exe from a USB stick and I want to pass the >>>> location of the .exe (so the USB drive) to the main Python file. How do I >>>> do this? >>>> >>>> For clarity: >>>> >>>> Program.exe is on USB drive E:\ >>>> Launching Program.exe results in extracting to the temporary folder on >>>> C:\Users\... >>>> The main.py file gets E:\ as argument when launched. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> Bests, >>> madoodia >>> >> -- >> 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 [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > > > Bests, > madoodia > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyinstaller. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
