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lulijeta
lulijeta

Reputation: 908

Bash can't find python library but pydev can

I am trying to write some script using Python DNS library (dnspython). I installed it (python-dns and python-dnspython) using packet manager (apt-get install).

I was trying to write the script interactively on the shell, but it keeps saying that it can't find the library.

>>> import dns
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named dns

The funny part is, when I make the same import on Eclipse (pydev) it has no problem placing it. It must be something I do wrong, like not defining the path etc (although this one isn't very likely, since -as far as I know- apt-get is supposed to handle it automatically).

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 Python version: 2.7.3

I am a beginner on Linux and on Python (bad combination, I know). Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 779

Answers (2)

Vorsprung
Vorsprung

Reputation: 34427

do this

dpkg -L python-dnspython

This gives a long list of paths to where it is installed On my system python-dnspython is in /usr/share/pyshared/ which (surely) should be in the search path for python. To be sure, set it manually with 

export PYTHONPATH=/usr/share/pyshared

Before running the cli python

Upvotes: 0

GreenGuerilla
GreenGuerilla

Reputation: 379

Try this in both environments to see what the difference is:

import sys
print sys.path

Upvotes: 2

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