Pyinstaller EXE's __file__ refers to a .py file

Question

Situation: My Python script has a line of code that copies itself to another directory

shutil.copyfile(os.path.abspath(__file__), newPath)

Problem: The script is then compiled into an EXE and ran. The error given is as follows:

FileNotFoundError: No such file or Directory: "C:\Path\To\EXE\script.py"

As you can see, the EXE is looking for the .py version of itself (i.e. uncompiled version)

Question: Is there another Python command that can still let the executable find itself and not the .py version of itself?

Additional information: I was going to try to just replace .py with .exe and see if it works -- it would have if not for the program to fail if I change the name of the executable.

C:\ > script.exe
#Works as expected

C:\ > ren script.exe program.exe
C:\ > program.exe
FileNotFoundError: No such file or directory: "C:\script.py"

Answer 1

Try the following:

from os.path import abspath, splitext
fromfile_without_ext, ext = splitext(abspath(__file__))
shutil.copyfile(fromfile_without_ext + '.exe', newPath)

(Did not test it, but should work...)