Auto-py-to-exe: Only One File – WITH IMAGES – For Our Python Apps

If you wonder how to make an .exe file to distribute your python app, just read this post and you’ll see how to do it with auto-py-to exe.

alt text — The GUI of Auto-py-to-exe to create an exe file out of our python code

Brent Vollebregt is the author of this great app.

Grent Vollebregt

Pyinstaller

First you need to install pyinstaller, as the program is based on this module.

pip install pyinstaller

Auto-py-to-exe

Now you can install auto-py-to-exe.

pip install auto-py-to-exe

Run auto-py-to-exe

Now you can run it like so:

Run it in the cmd to open the GUI of Auto-py-to-exe

I cannot include images in the exe

One problem could be this: you have to put the images into the folder of the exe file. But why you cannot include the images into the exe file instead, so that i have one only file to distribute with my app?

Here is the solution.

Once you set the Auto-py-to-exe like this, if you have an like like the following

Video

The code of the example in the video

import tkinter as tk
import os
from tkinter import messagebox
import sys

''' Try one of this 3 functions and see which one works '''
def resource_path0(relative_path):
    """ Get absolute path to resource, works for dev and for PyInstaller """
    base_path = getattr(
        sys,
        '_MEIPASS',
        os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
    return os.path.join(base_path, relative_path)


def resource_path(relative):
    return os.path.join(
        os.environ.get(
            "_MEIPASS2",
            os.path.abspath(".")
        ),
        relative
    )

    return os.path.join(base_path, relative_path)

def resource_path2(relative_path):
    """ Get absolute path to resource, works for dev and for PyInstaller """
    try:
        # PyInstaller creates a temp folder and stores path in _MEIPASS
        base_path = sys._MEIPASS
    except Exception:
        base_path = os.path.abspath(".")

    return os.path.join(base_path, relative_path)


def works(evt):
	messagebox.showinfo("Image in the exe file", "This really works")

root = tk.Tk()
# Here is where you use resource_path for your images to fix the path so that works with pyinstaller
# to include the images in the exe file
path = resource_path0("image2.png")
img = tk.PhotoImage(file=path)
label = tk.Label(root,
	image=img)
label.pack()
label.bind("<1>", works)

root.mainloop()

"""
pyinstaller --noconfirm --onefile --windowed --add-data "G:/filebrowser/image2.PNG;."  "G:/filebrowser/app2.py"
"""

Remember to put an image called “image2.png” in the folder of this script to make it work. If resource_path0 does not work, try resorce_path or resource_path2.

Another example of use of the functions resource_path0 in another game