error with py2exe

[nazish zehra]

I am using tkinter to make a gui and then converting it to .exe using py2exe.My gui also includes .gif images. Code I am using in setup.py is:

from distutils.core import setup
import py2exe

setup(console=['gui.py'])

i run the following command from console:

python setup.py py2exe

it executes and makes gui.exe but when i run gui.exe from commandline it gives the following error:

C:\>dist\gui
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "gui.py", line 226, in <module>
  File "Tkinter.pyc", line 3282, in __init__
  File "Tkinter.pyc", line 3238, in __init__
_tkinter.TclError: couldn't open "ss.gif": no such file or directory

[bvdet]

Obviously the image file was not found. I don't have an answer for how to use an external image file from an executable. However, I can tell you how to embed the gif image in your source code for compiling. Following is sample code for displaying the image in a Tkinter widget:

        self.imageFrame = Tkinter.Frame(self.masterFrame)
        self.imageFrame.pack(side=LEFT, expand=1, fill=BOTH)
        self.image = Tkinter.PhotoImage(master=self.imageFrame, data=imagedata)
        self.imageLabel = Tkinter.Label(self.imageFrame, image=self.image)
        self.imageLabel.pack(side=LEFT, anchor="n", padx=2, pady=2)

The image data (imagedata in the snippet above) is made by assignment of the ascii text printed to stdout by the following code:

# Create string representing image
import base64
print "icon='''\\\n" + base64.encodestring(open("ss.gif", "rb").read()) + "'''"

The image data assignment looks something like this:

imagedata = '''\
R0lGODlhzAGDAXcAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAADMAYMBhwAAAIAAAACAAICAAAAAgIAAgACAgICAgMDA
wP8AAAD/AP//AAAA//8A/wD//////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMwAAZgAAmQAAzAAA/wAz
AAAzMwAzZgAzmQAzzAAz/wBmAABmMwBmZgBmmQBmzABm/wCZAACZMwCZZgCZmQCZzACZ/wDMAADM
.... snip ....
LSegm7q95VuMVRe+q9vA1VHGVM9HNdwtqjP9XNxI2tHHldzJHaKAAAA7
'''

[nazish zehra]

image is there in the same folder .when i run gui.py it runs without any error displaying the image but exe file gives error.

[bvdet]

Did you try including the full path to the image file in your source code?

[nazish zehra]

its solved after giving the full path.thankyou