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atmaere
atmaere

Reputation: 345

Add external module to python

I want to read Fortran 90 binary files in Python and hence there is this module which has been developed for that in Scipy called as "fortranFile", as given here fortranFile module

How do I include this module in python so that I can call it from my code like 

import fortranFile

f = fortranFile('file.bin')
x = f.readReals('f')

print x

right now, I get the error

   Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "readfortbin.py", line 5, in <module>
    from fortranFile import fortranFile 
ImportError: cannot import name fortranFile

I made a folder "fortranFile" in my /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages directory and added the "fortranFile.py" file to that folder. I know that I am missing something... Please suggest how I should proceed.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3791

Answers (1)

user849425
user849425

Reputation:

To quickly address your question, I think your import statement is wrong. Specifically I think from fortanFile import fortranFile should be from fortranFile import FortranFile. It is convention in Python is to capitalize every word in a class name.

On a different note there is a more up-to-date version of the module you're trying to install here and in the Python Package Index. You can easily install it using the Python package installer pip.

Important note: fortranfile depends on the popular numpy numerical analysis package.

On my Ubuntu 13.04 system I had to perform the following steps:

apt-get install -y libpython-dev # For compiling the numpy C wrappers.
                                 # May alternatively be called python-dev or python-devel.
pip install numpy
pip install fortranfile

Upvotes: 2

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