Question

I am working on code that uses os.walk to search through a relative path. When I run it as a python script I have no problems but after converting it to an exe it can’t seem to find the relative path. The current path prints fine Below is the current solution that i have been working on.

if getattr(sys, 'frozen', False):
    currentPath = os.path.dirname(sys.executable)
    relativePath = os.path.join(currentPath,'/../../folder')
else:
    currentPath = inspect.stack()[0][1]
    relativePath = os.path.join(currentPath,'/../../folder')

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(relativePath):

When hardcoding the relativePath the exe works.

relativePath = “D:/location/../../folder”

Is there something tricky with joining when converting to an exe that I’m missing?

Answer 1

I’m not sure but the cause could be that you are mixing backslashes and forward slashes in the path.

Try changing the code that creates relativePath to the following:

relativePath = os.path.join(currentPath, '..', '..', 'folder')

This should ensure that you are definitely using the correct path separator.