error when compiling shitil with pyinstaller

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Pyinstaller & shutil [function copy] problem !

hi I'm trying to convert a .py code into .exe actually my code is similar to that :

 dr  = os.environ['WINDIR']
    current = os.path.abspath(__file__)
    shutil.copy(current, dr)

as we can see the code copy the current fine to windows file (this is just an example ) ; the code actually works fine but if we compile it into exe and run it we will see .

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 13, in <module>
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\john\Desktop\pyinstaller\pyinstaller-2.0\test
\build\pyi.win32\test\out00-PYZ.pyz\shutil", line 119, in copy
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\john\Desktop\pyinstaller\pyinstaller-2.0\test
\build\pyi.win32\test\out00-PYZ.pyz\shutil", line 82, in copyfile
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\john
\\Desktop\\pyinstaller\\pyinstaller-2.0\\test\\dist\\test.py'

the error is from function copy because it doesn't find test.py in \test\dist\test.py .

any solutions ?

i tried :

 dr  = os.environ['WINDIR']
    current = os.path.abspath(__file__)
    newfile = current.replace('py','exe')
    shutil.copy(current, dr)

but it still say

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\john
\\Desktop\\exeinstaller\\exeinstaller-2.0\\test\\dist\\test.exe'

May be helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2292703/how-can-i-get-the-executables-current-directory-in-py2exe — Blender, Jul 01 '13 at 06:21
thank you blender solved by replacing __file__ by sys.argv[0] — user2537958, Jul 01 '13 at 06:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 24 '22 at 20:41

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It seems that when compiling into exe file os.path.abspath(__file__) copies the file location before compiling and is not treated as a variable.

answered Mar 24 '22 at 20:41

Nemo Vetinari

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error when compiling shitil with pyinstaller

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