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Determine the application path of a Python EXE
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| def app_path(): | |
| """ | |
| Return the path of the application. | |
| """ | |
| if getattr(sys, 'frozen', False): | |
| return os.path.dirname(sys.executable) | |
| return os.path.dirname(__file__) |
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This code is very useful for getting the path of the application if py2exe or PyInstaller have been used to generate a Python EXE. Because file is empty in such a case you need to check if the application is running as a script or as a frozen exe. So that is what the app_path function is doing.