sqlite + PyQt5 to standalone exe - Python 3.6.3 + Pyinstaller

Question

I would like to create an exe with Pyinstaller including a database (.db) and a picture (.png). I want everything into a single

Answer 1

You have to solve many issues to get this working. For example:

• Getting the right resource path
• Adding data

The first issue is solved by adjusting paths depending on execution mode.

def app_path(path):
    frozen = 'not'
    if getattr(sys, 'frozen', False):
            # we are running in executable mode
            frozen = 'ever so'
            app_dir = sys._MEIPASS
    else:
            # we are running in a normal Python environment
            app_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
    return os.path.join(app_dir, path)

The second issue is efficiently including what you need. At first the obvious solution is to add each image and db manually, but i had lots of image. I turned to the spec file way using the wildcard operator (*) to add what i need in folder than adding folder/*.

added_files = [
         ( './pics/*', 'pics' ),
         ( './db/*', 'db' ),
         ]

then in Analysis,

datas = added_files

A thorough answer is quite long. I've written this article to show in some minute details what i went through to solve the issue.