problem with PyInstaller

[Zenahr]

I'm packaging a script as an executable via PyInstaller.

better_profanity always looks for a file in this directory: C:\\Users\\<USERNAME>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\_MEI199002\\better_profanity\\alphabetic_unicode.json

Is there a way to select the file for that manually as we can for the wordlist?

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "gui.py", line 15, in 
  File "", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "", line 671, in _load_unlocked
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 546, in exec_module
  File "app\app.py", line 3, in 
  File "", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "", line 671, in _load_unlocked
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 546, in exec_module
  File "better_profanity\__init__.py", line 3, in 
  File "", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "", line 671, in _load_unlocked
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 546, in exec_module
  File "better_profanity\better_profanity.py", line 5, in 
  File "", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "", line 671, in _load_unlocked
  File "PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 546, in exec_module
  File "better_profanity\constants.py", line 14, in 
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'C:\\Users\\\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\_MEI199002\\better_profanity\\alphabetic_unicode.json'

[jcbrockschmidt]

Have you tried using --add-data like in this solution? If that doesn't work, could you provide steps to reproduce this error?

[Zenahr]

@jcbrockschmidt Yes, I did. I'll try to get back to you to reproduce. However, I've moved on to an alternative lib.

[jcbrockschmidt]

@jcbrockschmidt Yes, I did. I'll try to get back to you to reproduce. However, I've moved on to an alternative lib.

In that case, it's probably because we're reading files in a non-standardized way. I suspect we'll want to do something like this. Labeling as a bug.

[jonathan-attard]

Can you use this?

bundle_dir = getattr(sys, '_MEIPASS', os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
file_path = os.path.join(bundle_dir, file_name)

[WilHall]

The above solutions do not work for me on the latest pyinstaller with Python 3.5 - the .env file is still not found.