Question

i created an executable egg to make it as an single file executable.

setup.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name='app',
    version='0.5',
    description='foo',
    author='microo8',
    author_email='[e-mail]',
    packages=["foo", "bar"],
    install_requires=["sqlalchemy>=0.7", "paramiko>=1.7.7.1"],
    entry_points = {
        'setuptools.installation': [
            'eggsecutable = foo.module:main',
        ]
    }
)

I can now call it: ./app-0.5-py2.7.egg, but the relative paths are all in the egg.
when I call print __file__ in the main function it prints /home/user/app-0.5-py2.7.egg/foo/module.py. I want to read an config file that must be in the same dir as the egg. And the same script must be executable also as “non-egg”, so the config file will be in the dir with the script.

how can i find out that the script is executed from an egg and also the egg path?

Answer 1

So I dont know how to check that the running script is in an egg, but the config file path can be obtained with this: os.path.realpath('config.cfg').

This suits me and when I have a dir with the executable egg and an config file this is a correct path.

Also when I have just the script in the dir with the config file it also is correct.

And also when i use pyinstaller to create an singlefile exe.