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Eddie-C
Eddie-C

Reputation: 11

Anaconda import Error

I wrote my own module for Aanaconda and placed it into the correct site-package for Anaconda.

The issue I'm having is that Python says the module does not exist even though its saved in site-packages.

So how do I make /anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages find my module?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 695

Answers (1)

Paul
Paul

Reputation: 5935

Perhaps your module isn't built correctly? Or you are using a different python than the one where you put your module?

Let's confirm the site-packages (and the python). In your python interpreter do:

import site
site.getsitepackages()

Did that return ['/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages', '/anaconda/lib/site-python']? If it returned a different site-packages folder then put your module there. Perhaps you are using a different python (confirm with which python).

If that looked fine then I would check on your module. Are you sure you have the __init__.py defined? What error did you get?

Try creating a simple test module like:

simple_test/
|-- __init__.py
`-- simple.py

Where simple.py just has:

def print_hello():
    print("hello")

Now copy the whole of simple_test directory into the site-packages directory that we discovered above. Now do, in the python interpreter, the following:

from simple_test.simple import print_hello
print_hello()

That should work and give a blueprint for how to do this setup.

FYI long term you should probably be building conda packages and installing them instead of doing this copying work.

Upvotes: 1

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