[Py2exe-users] Standalone executable with data files and __file__ issue

[Pedro A. a. s. <uf...@uf...>]

While trying to make a standalone windows executable for Babel[1],
I've stumbled upon a problem.

Babel uses some pickled *.dat files from inside it's module tree,
which don't initially get included by py2exe. I've been able to
override that with the data_files option, however, when trying
to use the resulting executable I get the following error:

WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified:
'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Win2K1\\My Documents\\Projects\\Babel\\dist\\pybabel.exe\\babel\\localedata/*.*'

The line of the problematic code is this[2] one.
Babel uses os.path.dirname(__file__) to get the module's
path which from there we can know where the data files
are.

How can I make this work?

[1] - http://babel.edgewall.org/
[2] - http://babel.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/babel/localedata.py#L56
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