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MegaNoobyYT
MegaNoobyYT

Reputation: 23

How can i know the name of a imported module? PYTHON

i've installed a python project, and it imports modules(Like almost every project). The problem is when i want to install them(because i haven't got the modules), for example: In the project is imported a module called "a" but when i go and install "a" with pip install a, it says ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement a (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for a. How could i know the name of the module that is imported in that python project?

Edit: btw i just found out the module that the project uses comes in the zip where the python project is. How could i install it so it works?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 395

Answers (2)

Peter Badida
Peter Badida

Reputation: 12169

For installing from zip simply use:

pip install *.zip

or specify the path directly:

pip install <path to .zip>
pip install ./my-archive.zip

Same applies for a tarball or any other format. It can be even a folder. However, it has to include a proper setup.py or other mechanism for pip to install it and pip has to support the packaging format (be it archive, networking protocol, version control system (git prefix), etc).

pip install ./my-folder
pip install ./
pip install .
pip install ..
etc

If, however, there is no setup.py present, you'll need to simply copy-paste the files somewhere where your project/module resides (or set PYTHONPATH or sys.path to that folder) to be able to import them. See this or this question for more.

Upvotes: 0

Vincent B&#233;net
Vincent B&#233;net

Reputation: 1314

All pip packages are listed here. If you want to import a module called a inside a python script, the command to install it could be sometimes pip install b. Because the name of the stored package can varied from the python import name. To find how to install it the best is to get the pypi url of your package. You can googling the python error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dgvd', it always show you the pypi url in top links.

The good practice in a project is to have a txt file called requirement.txt that you create in bash using this command:

pip freeze > requirement.txt

Then install all packages in once using:

pip install -r requirement.txt

Upvotes: 1

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