getting data out of an exe

[mjabon]

Originally Posted by farshizzo

The documentation for Publishing as an EXE describes how to accomplish this. Specifically, you need to use the viz.res.getPublishedPath() command.

Right, but that just returns a string - the path of the file. It doesn't output the file.

[farshizzo]

Of course it doesn't, it's up to you to create the file using the new path and write to it:

f = open( viz.res.getPublishedPath('output.txt') , 'w' )
f.write('bla bla bla')
f.close()