Distributing an executable zip file with main.py, how to access extra data?

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Published on 2010-05-18T17:06:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 17:10 UTC
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I'm doing a little program and I want to distribute using this recipe:

single directory with _main_.py in it
zip this directory and echo #!/usr/bin/env python\n > file.zip
making it executable

The problem is that in this package I have also extra files (I'm using pygtk toolkit and I need images and ui xml files). When I try to access these files I have the error that the resource is unavailable (the path that I'm trying to open is something like file.zip/gui/gui.ui ).

How can I handle this situation?

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