Importing external module in single-file exe created with PyInstaller

Question

I am using PyInstaller to create a single-file executable. Is it possible for my script to perform an import such that i) the imported module is imported from the same direc

Answer 1

Type in Pyinstaller -h. It will give you info about pyinstaller and tell you about --runtime-hook. I presume adding this to the executable should work. There's actually a whole page of documentation for this. Surprised you could not find that.

Anyway,

The docs say put in: pyinstaller --additional-hooks-dir=. myscript.py.

I presume then something like pyinstaller --additional-hooks-dir=C:\pathtofolder myscript.py should work in theory. Yet to test it. Tell us how it goes and what made kinks made it work for you.

Lastly, if you want to be hipster try integrating cython for speed and obfuscation. Fair warning, cython is not as user friendly as pyinstaller appears to be. I have yet to use it successfully.