Issue when using open() in converted exe

[skakalpes]

Hi. I'm trying to solve a critical issue that prevents to continue working on my project. I think it's something easy to solve and I'm probably just missing something obvious, however, I couldn't find the resolution online.

I'm using open() to read the file content.

move_f = open(vkode_location + "devview\\files\\stats\\stats_console.saver", "r") print("You've opened Console " + move_f.read() + " times") move_f.close()

When I run it on my device, everything works perfectly. But when I convert it to an executable, it inserts "v" to the file location for some reason.

Output:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "console.py", line 207, in <module> result, error = vkode.run('<stdin>', text) File "vkode.py", line 2848, in run result = interpreter.visit(ast.node, context) File "vkode.py", line 2527, in visit return method(node, context) File "vkode.py", line 2547, in visit_ListNode elements.append(res.register(self.visit(element_node, context))) File "vkode.py", line 2527, in visit return method(node, context) File "vkode.py", line 2749, in visit_CallNode return_value = res.register(value_to_call.execute(args)) File "vkode.py", line 1708, in execute return_value = res.register(method(exec_ctx)) File "vkode.py", line 1929, in execute_vkStats move_f = open(vkode_location + "devview\\files\\stats\\stats_console.saver", "r") FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'D:\\Soubory\\jine\\Developing\\vkode\\6 - kopie (2) - kopie\\dist\\console\\vdevview\\files\\stats\\stats_console.saver' [7216] Failed to execute script 'console' due to unhandled exception!

The code should open devview\\files\\stats\\stats_console.saver, not vdevview\\files\\stats\\stats_console.saver

The pyinstaller command:
pyinstaller --noconfirm --onedir --console --icon "D:/Soubory/jine/Developing/vkode/6 - kopie (2) - kopie/icon.ico" --no-embed-manifest --add-data "D:/Soubory/jine/Developing/vkode/6 - kopie (2) - kopie/cache;cache/" --add-data "D:/Soubory/jine/Developing/vkode/6 - kopie (2) - kopie/devview;devview/" --add-data "D:/Soubory/jine/Developing/vkode/6 - kopie (2) - kopie/devview/files;devview/files/" --add-data "D:/Soubory/jine/Developing/vkode/6 - kopie (2) - kopie/devview/files/savers;devview/files/savers/" --add-data "D:/Soubory/jine/Developing/vkode/6 - kopie (2) - kopie/devview/files/stats;devview/files/stats/" --add-data "D:/Soubory/jine/Developing/vkode/6 - kopie (2) - kopie/lib;lib/" --add-data "D:/Soubory/jine/Developing/vkode/6 - kopie (2) - kopie/console.py;." --add-data "D:/Soubory/jine/Developing/vkode/6 - kopie (2) - kopie/update.py;." --add-data "D:/Soubory/jine/Developing/vkode/6 - kopie (2) - kopie/vkode.py;." --add-data "D:/Soubory/jine/Developing/vkode/6 - kopie (2) - kopie/build-exe with python.py;." "D:/Soubory/jine/Developing/vkode/6 - kopie (2) - kopie/console.py"

I've tried a lot of things but nothing has solved the problem.
Can you please help me?

[deanhystad]

What is the value of vkode_location? It would be interesting to know if the "v" is added there.

I don't think you are using --add-data correctly. I am more concerned that the program is trying to access "'D:\\Soubory\" than a mystery "v".

[snippsat]

You can not use absolute path to file system outside of the build,
then point is that this shall work on other Pc that dos not have a D:/Soubory/ folder.
Pyinstaller most find stats_console.saver in the build together with .exe.

Example:

# f_read.py with open('test.saver') as f: print(f.read()) input('Press enter to exit')

Now build like this pyinstaller --onedir --add-data "test.saver;." f_read.py
Test:

# At start files in same folder C:\code\py_file λ ls f_read.py test.saver # Build C:\code\py_file λ pyinstaller --onedir --add-data "test.saver;." f_read.py 80 INFO: PyInstaller: 4.8 80 INFO: Python: 3.10.0 99 INFO: Platform: Windows-10-10.0.19043-SP0 .... 7371 INFO: Building COLLECT COLLECT-00.toc completed successfully. # Navigate to folder # See that test.saver in build folder together with f_read.exe C:\code\py_file λ cd dist\f_read\ λ ls VCRUNTIME140.dll* _hashlib.pyd* _socket.pyd* libffi-7.dll* test.saver _asyncio.pyd* _lzma.pyd* _ssl.pyd* libssl-1_1.dll* unicodedata.pyd* _bz2.pyd* _multiprocessing.pyd* base_library.zip pyexpat.pyd* _ctypes.pyd* _overlapped.pyd* f_read.exe* python310.dll* _decimal.pyd* _queue.pyd* libcrypto-1_1.dll* select.pyd* # Test f_read.exe C:\code\py_file\dist\f_read λ f_read.exe Hello world Press enter to exit