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!
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