[Tutor] Problem with converting Python to EXE using py2exe

[Alan Gauld]

"Chris Lee" <i-scream_cones at hotmail.com> wrote

> _tkinter.TclError: Couldn't open "base.gif": no such file or directory

> ... I linked an image to the python file, but the exe can't find it.. 
> (right?)

Correct

 > base =  pic(file="base.gif")

> Now, I'm just wondering... for the "base.gif" part, would it be better
> to write out the whole directory?

No because that requires that your user install the program and
other files exactly where you did. Thats not friendly. Instead use
a relative path, for example keep the images in a sub-directory
of your project and have a registry setting or config file or
environment variable specify where that directory is. You can
then read the config data at startup and use that to create
the path for the image.


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Alan Gauld
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