EN - Some tricks about python compilation
This article might help you to learn some useful tricks about python compilation. You can train using the code and files given in this article.
Some information about the ressource path inside executable
After compiling your python code, you need to know where the files added and used by the executable are located.
While developing, _MEIPASS attribute from sys does not exists, so getattr(sys, '_MEIPASS', os.path.abspath('.')) returns os.path.abspath('.')
You will be able to use it only after PyInstaller compilation.
Here is the source code: source_code_ressource_path.py
After compiling…
Let’s imagine you have copied the folder images inside the executable, you can access this folder inside the temp folder AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI...
Context
Let’s build a simple app that is going to show a random image within a pool of images, i took 3 car images inside an executable: demo.exe
Prerequisite
pip install pillow
Code
Here is the source code: source_code.py
Compilation
After installing PyInstaller, you need to find where pyinstaller.exe is located
Example:
pip install PyInstaller
C:\Users\Aurelien\PycharmProjects\PythonCompilation\venv\Scripts\pyinstaller.exe -n RandomCar --onefile --no-console --clean --add-data images;images main.py
The options used are:
--onefile: Create a one-file bundled executable--no-console: Do not provide a console window for standard i/o--clean: Clean PyInstaller cache and remove temporary files before building.-n <name>: Name to assign to the bundled app and spec file--add-data <SRC;DEST or SRC:DEST>: Additional non-binary files or folders to be added to the executable. The path separator is platform specific, os.pathsep (which is ; on Windows and : on most unix systems) is used. This option can be used multiple times.
The folder images is copyed inside the executable file RandomCar.exe
You can find your executable file inside the folder dist created by PyInstaller
Result
The random car is displayed.