Running Python script with QProcess after freeze

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Alex1 | 2021-08-12 11:41:11 UTC | #1

I am using PyQt5 and freezing the app using pyinstaller. This app will create a QProcess to execute a service, which depends on my current virtual environment.

python 
self.p = QtCore.QProcess()
cmd = "-p 8888 -s dist/main/script/addons/meta_proxy.py -k"
params = shlex.split(cmd)
self.p.start("mitmproxy", params)

How can I run the QProcess from the Python environment that I am freezing? So that the users don't have to install anything to run their scripts other than my app.

Right now, after freezing, the QProcess uses the default Python2.7 environment installed on the machine.

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Running Python script with QProcess after freeze was written by Martin Fitzpatrick .

Martin Fitzpatrick has been developing Python/Qt apps for 8 years. Building desktop applications to make data-analysis tools more user-friendly, Python was the obvious choice. Starting with Tk, later moving to wxWidgets and finally adopting PyQt.

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