Create a folder using PythonHow to add an images folder to build executable file in Python. Code is given below
from distutils.core import setup
import glob
import py2exe, sys, os
sys.argv.append('py2exe')
setup(
options = {'py2exe': {'bundle_files': 1}},
windows = [{'script': "xtestrecorder.pyw"}],
zipfile = None,
data_files = [("images",'images/XALOGO.png')],
)
this code adds only images folder with in dist folder which is creating when i am running script above script.
You can use os.mkdir to create a directory.
From your code snippet, it looks similar to this question on SO about setuptools and package data [1]
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4519127/setuptools-package-data-folder-locationI understand you want the images folder embedded in your executable.
Py2exe let your data folder on the build folder as you describe, it does not include it in a single exe file.
If you want to collect everything in a file (p.e for distributing your program) the you can use Inno Setup [1]. Inno Setup collects executable and additional dlls and data folders in a setup executable file.
If you need to include just one or a few images that will not change, another option is to encode the image in base64 [2] and to put the image string in a py file to be imported and decoded again when needed. py2exe will include that code in the executable as like any other module. The wxpython wx.tool [3] package has several tools to help doing the conversion from an image to a python script.
[1] http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php