Pyinstaller Placing Images On Separate File Problem? How Do I Fix This?

Question

I am trying to place my images on a seperate file then my exe BECAUSE I have alot of images and I dont want the person scrolling throw thousands of images just to find the exe

I dont know if I am missing something on my .spec

this is what I did I made a folder for my images and added them and then the exe is outside my image folders but whats happening is its not detecting the images on that folder * am I messing something on my .spec file?

# -*- mode: python ; coding: utf-8 -*-

block_cipher = None


a = Analysis(['tower.py'],
             pathex=['C:\\Users\\Habib\\Desktop\\AllMyGames\\TowerD'],
             binaries=[],
             datas=['C:\Users\Habib\Desktop\AllMyGames\TowerD\dist\image'],
             hiddenimports=[],
             hookspath=[],
             runtime_hooks=[],
             excludes=[],
             win_no_prefer_redirects=False,
             win_private_assemblies=False,
             cipher=block_cipher,
             noarchive=False)
pyz = PYZ(a.pure, a.zipped_data,
             cipher=block_cipher)
exe = EXE(pyz,
          a.scripts,
          a.binaries,
          a.zipfiles,
          a.datas,
          [],
          name='tower',
          debug=False,
          bootloader_ignore_signals=False,
          strip=False,
          upx=True,
          upx_exclude=[],
          runtime_tmpdir=None,
          console=False )

it will end up just saying

FAILED TO EXECUTE SCRIPT 

Answer 1

Two problems I see:

1. Your datas string contain backslashes (escape character for python strings), resulting in an invalid string for a path.
2. The datas property is incorrectly structured.

From the docs:

The list of data files is a list of tuples. Each tuple has two values, both of which must be strings:

• The first string specifies the file or files as they are in this system now.
• The second specifies the name of the folder to contain the files at run-time.

https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/spec-files.html#adding-data-files

So, assuming your project root is C:\\Users\\Habib\\Desktop\\AllMyGames\\TowerD , change

# Change this line
datas=['C:\Users\Habib\Desktop\AllMyGames\TowerD\dist\image']
# To this
datas=[('dist/image', 'image')]

And I think it will work.

Answer 2

As @Multihunter said that the path is not escaped so the script is failing, here is the simplest solution to it

replace

datas=['C:\Users\Habib\Desktop\AllMyGames\TowerD\dist\image']

with

datas=[r'C:\Users\Habib\Desktop\AllMyGames\TowerD\dist\image']

prepending the r to your string will not escape any characters and your path will be as you wanted it to be.

See this for reference

Answer 3

我建议您检查您的图像是否为 ico 格式，如果它不使用： https ://icoconvert.com 如果这仍然不起作用，请重新执行 procces 但在您的 cmd promp 中写入“pyinstaller -icon”您的 .ico文件”和您的 project.py'