I want to include an external program with my Python program that I'll be turning into an .exe. The program is Antiword, which is used by textract to parse .doc files. If I have Antiword on my machine and modify the PATH environment variable to point to it, textract will use it correctly. (as suggested in this SO post).
However, I don't want my users to download Antiword separately and manually modify PATH. Can I include something in my main.py file, or during the auto-py-to-exe process so that Antiword comes bundled with it? Another acceptable solution would be for the program to add a new variable to PATH titled MY_PROGRAM_ANTIWORD_PATH with the correct location relative to the .exe.
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you can use a config file to get this – Xiaomin Wu Jul 31 '23 at 11:25
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Could you elaborate? – mkranj Jul 31 '23 at 13:37