Using pyrcc5 to Help Pyinstaller Import External Sources Example

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Using pyrcc5 to Help Pyinstaller Import External Sources Example

Dependencies

PyQt5

pip install PyQt5

Example Usage

pyrcc5 src.qrc -o external_src.py
python3 qfile_example.py

external_src

This is the contents of external_src file.

external_src.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Resource object code
#
# Created by: The Resource Compiler for PyQt5 (Qt v5.10.1)
#
# WARNING! All changes made in this file will be lost!

from PyQt5 import QtCore

qt_resource_data = b"\
\x00\x00\x00\x2a\
\x54\
\x68\x69\x73\x20\x69\x73\x20\x74\x68\x65\x20\x63\x6f\x6e\x74\x65\
\x6e\x74\x73\x20\x6f\x66\x20\x65\x78\x74\x65\x72\x6e\x61\x6c\x5f\
\x73\x72\x63\x20\x66\x69\x6c\x65\x2e\
"

qt_resource_name = b"\
\x00\x0c\
\x0a\x21\x33\xa3\
\x00\x65\
\x00\x78\x00\x74\x00\x65\x00\x72\x00\x6e\x00\x61\x00\x6c\x00\x5f\x00\x73\x00\x72\x00\x63\
"

qt_resource_struct_v1 = b"\
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x01\
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\
"

qt_resource_struct_v2 = b"\
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x01\
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\
\x00\x00\x01\x64\x4b\x72\x26\xa2\
"

qt_version = QtCore.qVersion().split('.')
if qt_version < ['5', '8', '0']:
    rcc_version = 1
    qt_resource_struct = qt_resource_struct_v1
else:
    rcc_version = 2
    qt_resource_struct = qt_resource_struct_v2

def qInitResources():
    QtCore.qRegisterResourceData(rcc_version, qt_resource_struct, qt_resource_name, qt_resource_data)

def qCleanupResources():
    QtCore.qUnregisterResourceData(rcc_version, qt_resource_struct, qt_resource_name, qt_resource_data)

qInitResources()

qfile_example.py

from PyQt5.QtCore import QFile, QIODevice

import external_src

def main():
    # Use QFile to load external sources compliled by pyrcc5.
    f = QFile(':/external_src')
    if not f.open(QIODevice.ReadOnly):
        raise IOError('file open error')
    print(str(f.readAll(), 'utf-8'))
    f.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

src.qrc

<!DOCTYPE RCC><RCC version="1.0">
<qresource>
    <file>external_src</file>
</qresource>
</RCC>