everywhere you run your exe it spread its needed file to _MEIPASS you should work to get result
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Christiaan Maks <[email protected]>wrote: > 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]>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]. >>> 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]. > 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]. 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.
