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Convert python file into exe using auto-py-to-exe

I have just finished a project where I have made a connect 4 game and am trying to convert it to an exe file using auto-py-to-exe.
I want to use the one-file option, however every time it finishes and I run it, it would come up with an error:
Failed to execute script 'main' due to unhandled exception: No file 'Assets/icon.png' found in working directory '...'
Then in the box it says:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 32, in <module>
FileNotFoundError: No file 'Assets/window-icon.png' found in working directory '...'.
I've tried quite a few alterations, e.g. not using the image, but then it would come up with the same error but for a different added file.
How can I fix this?
EDIT: I've tried it again by using the os module and giving the full directories to all the files in main.py, but that hasn't changed anything.

I was also facing this problem then I got the solutions from analysing other threads.
You have to update your script by adding this function
import sys
import os
def resource_path(relative_path):
""" Get absolute path to resource, works for dev and for PyInstaller """
base_path=getattr(sys,'_MEIPASS',os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
return os.path.join(base_path, relative_path)
and changing address of every additional files used in your script
for example
icon = resource_path("game.icon")
You just have to use auto-py-to-exe just like shown below
Showing the options you can just use
Add all the files used in the Additional File section of it and make sure that the period(.) is there in the destination
That's it !

Accessing Sub Directories and Files Within System32 Using Python 3

I have the following code:
import os
print (os.listdir("C:/Windows/System32/config"))
print (os.listdir("C:/Windows/System32/winevt"))
I am running this Python script as an administrator and confirmed those directories in fact exist.
The first line outputs with some files and folders, but not all files. For example, there is a registry hive contained within called "SOFTWARE" which does not appear in the output.
The second line says the path wasn't identified. Here is the full output:
['Journal', 'RegBack', 'systemprofile', 'TxR']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 3, in <module>
print (os.listdir("C:/Windows/System32/winevt"))
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'C:/Windows/System32/winevt'
This module (os.listdir), works pretty much everywhere else on the system, but not within System32. I suspect this may be permission related, but am not too sure on how to fix it as I am already running the script as an administrator.
Help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Pyinstaller builds file but chokes on certain .dlls

When I run my py program it works the way I intended it to. If I am on a Linux box and build an executable using Pyinstaller, it builds without issue and executes without issue. I have scoured the Pyinstaller docs, git, etc. none of the posted fixes helped
I am still very new at python and feel like it might be a simple fix and might be over thinking the issue
Why can I no build a functional .exe on a windows based system using pyinstaller?
Windows 10 system
Pyinstaller version 3.2
Python version 3.5.2
This is a GUI program using appJar which is also up to date.
The file does build, but errors "Could not execute script"
EDIT
Not sure if this is best to edit in line like this but...
So studying the output and making adjustments, the issue seems to be appJar.py. For some reason it is missing assets, I am looking into it. The trouble is that I am still not used to looking at this kind of output and am not sure where to start.
C:\Users\_User_>C:\temp\fileCreatorGUI\fileCreatorGUI.exe
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "F:\Users\_User_\python_working\fileCreatorGUI.py", line 73, in <module>
app = gui()
File "C:\Users\_User_\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\appJar\appjar.py", line 509, in __init__
self.topLevel.wm_iconbitmap(self.appJarIcon)
File "C:\Users\_User_\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1716, in wm_iconbitmap
return self.tk.call('wm', 'iconbitmap', self._w, bitmap)
_tkinter.TclError: bitmap "C:\temp\fileCreatorGUI\appJar\resources\icons\favicon.ico" not defined
Failed to execute script fileCreatorGUI
Edit 2
See answer below, but I was barking up the wrong tree on this one,
The Pyinstaller output chokes on the .dll's:
api-ms-win-core-console-l1-1-0.dll
api-ms-win-core-datetime-l1-1-0.dll
(There are like ~40 of these)
I added those .dll's to the python path, I declared them in the bianaries in the .spec file.
here is a truncated log:
2414 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:\Windows\system32\api-
ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\_USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-pa
ckages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", line 695, in getImports
return _getImports_pe(pth)
File "C:\Users\_USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-pa
ckages\PyInstaller\depend\bindepend.py", line 122, in _getImports_pe
dll, _ = sym.forwarder.split('.')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
2423 WARNING: Can not get binary dependencies for file: C:\Windows\system32\api-
ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.dll
I tried the fix listed here:
https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/pull/1981
but it did not seem to make a difference.
Someone recommended adding the sys.path.insert() route but it did not make a difference either way
I also tried this in a VM with windows 7, clean install, no change. My next step is to try to use Wine in Debian, but I don't really want to go that route. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

Turns out this was an appJar/packaging issue, the pyinstaller was not looking in the correct directory for the assets. per the dev of appJar, I commented out two lines of code in the appJar.py, lines 508-509:
if self.platform == self.WINDOWS:
self.topLevel.wm_iconbitmap(self.appJarIcon)
More on the specifics here: https://github.com/jarvisteach/appJar/issues/84
I probably can fix this by using the --path argument with pyinstaller but for the moment, the issue is fully resolved

Opening a file in Python gives me errors

I am quite new to Python and I am having problems opening a file in Python.
I want to open a text file called 'coolStuff' in a Folder on my Desktop and this is how I type in the command but I still get an error message. The file exists and so I do not understand why I get that error message.
open("coolStuff.txt","r")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in <module>
open("coolStuff.txt","r")
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'coolStuff.txt'

If you want to simply supply a filename like coolStuff.txt without also providing a full directory, then you have to make sure that Python is running in the same directory as the file. If you aren't sure what directory Python is running in, try this:
import os
print(os.getcwd())

You have two options:
let's say your file is in C:\path\to\dir\coolStuff.txt
1.
open(r'C:\path\to\dir\coolStuff.txt','r')
2.
import os
os.chdir(r'c:\path\to\dir')
open('coolStuff.txt', 'r')

Because the file you want to open is not in the current directory.You can find the file 'coolStuff.txt' in the terminal and launch your python environment at the same directory.

Nodebox graph module

I did the Nodebox tutorial on the graph library:
http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Graph#loading_the_library
I installed the library in Application Support
I pasted the following code:
graph = ximport("graph")
create(iterations=1000, distance=1.0, layout="spring", depth=True)
And I got this error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "nodebox/gui/mac/__init__.pyo", line 358, in _execScript
File "mypath", line 2, in <module>
NameError: name 'create' is not defined
And before that I got this:
NameError: name 'ximport' is not defined
If I close the file and reopen and just say graph = ximport("graph")
Nothing happens (it seems to work).
I think it would be a very cool library to work with.
Any help would be great.

The problem is with your Path, as the tutorial link that you pointed to said:
Put the graph library folder in the same folder as your script so NodeBox can find the library. You can also put it in ~/Library/Application Support/NodeBox/.
Otherwise install content from the graph.zip
and do
import graph
graph.create
Sorry, I don't have MAC to try these. But the error messages are saying that Python is not able to find your modules properly. For python to find it, they should be in the current directory or in the PYTHONPATH.