Re: [Py2exe-users] Having trouble including some custom python modules in executable

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

On 18/05/2010 00:46, Jeremy Conlin wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Daryl Tester
> <dt-...@ha...>  wrote:
>> Jeremy Conlin wrote:
>>
>>> myPython.py includes some code to add CP to sys.path so it finds the
>>> right modules.
>>
>> Did you do the same with setup.py?
>
> Of course I *should* have tried that but didn't.  I just changed my
> setup.py to include the change to the sys.path and it almost works.
> The only thing it didn't include is the 'CustomData.txt' file.  This
> file is necessary for execution.  Do you know how to include that file
> as well?  I have tried the following (that didn't work):
>
> setup(console=...,
>      data_files = ('CP\\CP2', ['CP\\CP2\\CustomData.txt']),
IIRC this has to be an absolute path, e.g.

 >      data_files = ('CP\\CP2', ['c:\\path to\\CP\\CP2\\CustomData.txt']),
>      ...

Werner