FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[Tom Large]

Hi, 

first I'm sorry to disturb you.

I have an issue concerning my app. 

I'm on Mac, python 3.7, using pyinstaller/auto-py-to-exe.

I"m able to convert it into an exec, it works fine. except one thing.

i have multiple files in my project. In fact I made a sneakers bot. so I have like 6 python script. and also config.json, profils.csv, proxies.txt....

All is working, it includes well my python script. except config.json, profils.csv....

in my script: 

f = open('Config.json', 'r')...

but I get this error:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/folders/mf/m76x8ty92_s62ly5dyfrmhm80000gn/T/_MEIOZO6HY/Config.json'

I don't understand why it is looking for this path. 

Could you help me please ? 

[bwoodsend]

You need to read up on what --onefile actually does to understand why it’s looking in such an obscure corner of your PC.

PyInstaller doesn’t collect data files by default - you need to use the --add-data option to explicitly add each one (note the very specific syntax --add-data=./Config.json:.). You also should read up on using __file__ to locate data files at run time. Your code would break even without PyInstaller if you ran it from a different directory. Once you’ve done that you can then see the docs for using __file__ in PyInstaller.

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