read a file which is pex-ed

[ws1088]

I have verified that my data file is zipped in the .pex archive. But how do I refer to it in my Python code? I also need to make sure that the code works with non-pex run as well (which means I need a way to determine if i am running from within pex-ed executable. pyinstaller does have this feature).

[ws1088]

found out that i can use --not-zip-safe option. is there any other way? thanks!

[jsirois]

Sorry for the late reply! Since #1438 (2 months after you asked this question) all PEXed user and third party code runs fully extracted to disk, the --not-zip-safe is now a no-op:

$ pex -h | grep -A3 zip-safe
  --zip-safe, --not-zip-safe
                        Deprecated: This option is no longer used since user
                        code is now always unzipped before execution.
                        (default: None)