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From: Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:52:55 +0000
Subject: Re: Correct idiom for determining path when frozen in 3.4
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On 17 March 2014 08:44, Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the correct idiom for getting the path to a top-level module in 3.3 and 3.4 when the module might be frozen?
>
> At the moment I'm using this:
>
>     if getattr(sys, "frozen", False):
>         path = os.path.dirname(sys.executable)
>     else:
>         path = os.path.dirname(__file__)

Why do you want to know this? Does pkgutil.get_data do what you want?

http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/pkgutil.html#pkgutil.get_data


Oscar