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.
