Correct idiom for determining path when frozen in 3.4

[Ben Finney]

Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > Mark Summerfield <list at qtrac.plus.com> writes:
> >     if getattr(sys, "frozen"):    # ‘getattr’ will return None by default
>
> No it won't.
> […]
> Sure, but sys.executable always exists.

My apologies for posting untested code without making that clear. Thanks
to Devin for picking up my mistakes.

> > Lastly, it's slightly more Pythonic to execute the normal path
> > unconditionally, and let it raise an exception if there's a problem::
> >
> >     try:
> >         executable = sys.executable
> >     except AttributeError:
> >         executable = __file__
> >     path = os.path.dirname(executable)

> sys.frozen doesn't [necessarily exist], and the existence or
> nonexistence is apparently meaningful; so your code does something
> different than the original problem statement.

Right. I didn't understand why ‘__file__’ is a suitable substitute for
‘sys.executable’; they're always (?) different values. So that probably
is what led to the confusion in the code behaviour.

I hope the Pythonic idioms are helpful to the original poster
nevertheless.

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