How to make the path to songs in pygame relative

Question

Im working on a simple Snake game in python, and its working as intended here at home, but when I put the code on github, it doesn\'t find the path to the songs, I want to make

Answer 1

Standard method is to find real path to folder with application

import os, sys

APP_FOLDER = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.argv[0]))

And later use it to create real path to file

full_path = os.path.join(APP_FOLDER, "eating.wav")

pygame.mixer.Sound(full_path).play()

Or you have to change "current working directory" (CWD) to application folder.

os.chdir(APP_FOLDER)

pygame.mixer.Sound("eating.wav").play()

You can check current working directory with

print(os.getcwd())

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BTW: without this method problem is not only when you run on different computer but also when you run from different folder on the same computer - so it makes problem when you create shortcut/icon on desktop which executes program as python game_folder/game.py