I have a small python script that needs to do some simple stats on some lists of numbers - the sort of thing the statistics.py library seems suitable for.
From what I can make out of the info on python.org, it should be part of the standard library in python 3.4.1 (on Win 64 bit), but I'm struggling to access the functions.
import statistics just gives a 'no module named 'statistics' error
Looking through the python34\Lib directory doesn't seem to show a statistics folder, and creating one and saving the statistics.py file available from python.org doesn't seem to make any difference.
Googling for how to install python libraries gives lots of examples referencing setup.py files and command line sequences, but i don't see how they relate to the statistics.py file available.
I'm obviously missing something (probably obvious!) but being a newbie at this i can't work out what it is. Any pointers?
I had the same problem, and instead of:
import statistics
I wrote:
from Lib import statistics
Good Luck!
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I want to speed up my python code so i tried to translate it in c thanks to cython. I followed the basics tutorials and other youtube videos and i finally could create a functions_cython.c file. But somehow i just can't import it. I tried to import it in my main file, i also tried in another file named 'testing.py' but I always receive errors saying that the module 'functions_cython' does not exist, while it actually is in the file. Do you have any idea why ? (i linked some images if that can help)
The problem was because I was using PyCharm's "community version" and this version (in opposition of the professional one) does not allow to import .c formats. I switched to VS Code.
I have searched through the existing questions on stackoverflow and wasn't able to find what I am looking for. Firstly, I am new to Python, I come from Ruby so some things seem unclear to me in Python. I learn by doing so I am writing my own python REST API client for a payment gateway, which I plan on releasing to PyPi. The problem I have is importing modules from different folders.
Let's say I have the folder structure like this:
my_project/src/lib/directory1/module1.py
my_project/src/lib/directory2/module2.py
In my_project/src/lib/directory1/module1.py I want to import a function defined in my_project/src/lib/directory2/module2.py so
# my_project/src/lib/directory2/module2.py
from lib.directory2 import module1
This doesn't work, it says ImportError: No module named directory2. I read that in Python you need to add the module to the PATH but I have gone to PyPi and took the first library from the top (SeleniumBase) to look at how the code is organised in the GitHub project and I don't see they do any stuff like that. Could you please explain to me how this works and how I can organise my codebase to be able to import modules in one module from different folders to build my own library?
I read this article https://docs.python.org/3/reference/import.html and tried what they say in section 5.7. Package Relative Imports but it doesn't work
In theory this should work
from ..subpackage2.moduleZ import eggs
But it doesn't. I get SystemError: Parent module '' not loaded, cannot perform relative import.
Import will only work if the module you are trying to import is in the same directory as the script that is doing the import.
Otherwise you have to specify the path.
Like this :
import my_project/src/lib/directory1/module1.py
I have been coding in python for about 2 months, but I'm only familiar with basic object-oriented programming, so I do not really understand things like how searching for modules is implemented. (Basically I'm a noob.)
I pip installed a package called Opentrons Opentrons 2.5.2 and all its dependencies into the samefolder as a python script I'm currently writing. However when I tried to import the module below[1], I get an error saying that "Opentrons is not a module". Then, I tried shifting it into the python library because I found out the search path using the pprint module and it seems to work. I was wondering if I can specify the search path from the .py file itself instead of manually printing the search path and putting the file into the library that the script searches for. (Willing to put in images of the directories I put the opentrons package in if it helps.)
[1]
import sys
import pprint
pprint.pprint(search.path)
from opentrons import robot, containers, instruments
Edit: I realise that the fact that I am running all my scripts in a Spyder console located in a python 3.6 environment might be important.
You can try using the __import__ function, or importlib. This should allow you to specify the path.
I'm self-taught in the Python world, so some of the structural conventions are still a little hazy to me. However, I've been getting very close to what I want to accomplish, but just ran into a larger problem.
Basically, I have a directory structure like this, which will sit outside of the normal python installation (this is to be distributed to people who should not have to know what a python installation is, but will have the one that comes standard with ArcGIS):
top_directory/
ArcToolbox.tbx
scripts/
ArcGIStool.py (script for the tool in the .tbx)
pythonmod/
__init__.py
general.py
xlrd/ (copied from my own python installation)
xlwt/ (copied from my own python installation)
xlutils/ (copied from my own python installation)
So, I like this directory structure, because all of the ArcGIStool.py scripts call functions within the pythonmod package (like those within general.py), and all of the general.py functions can call xlrd and xlwt functions with simple "import xlrd" statements. This means that if the user desired, he/she could just move the pythonmod folder to the python site-packages folder, and everything would run fine, even if xlrd/xlwt/xlutils are already installed.
THE PROBLEM:
Everything is great, until I try to use xlutils in general.py. Specifically, I need to "from xlutils.copy import copy". However, this sets off a cascade of import errors. One is that xlutils/copy.py uses "from xlutils.filter import process,XLRDReader,XLWTWriter". I solved this by modifying xlutils/copy.py like this:
try:
from xlutils.filter import process,XLRDReader,XLWTWriter
except ImportError:
from filter import process,XLRDReader,XLWTWriter
I thought this would work fine for other situations, but there are modules in the xlutils package that need to import xlrd. I tried following this advice, but when I use
try:
import xlrd
except ImportError:
import os, sys, imp
path = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0]))
xlrd = imp.load_source("pythonmod.xlrd",os.path.join(path,"xlrd","__init__.py"))
I get a new import error: In xlrd/init.py, the info module is called (from xlrd/info.py), BUT when I use the above code, I get an error saying that the name "info" is not defined.
This leads me to believe that I don't really know what is going on, because I thought that when the init.py file was imported it would run just like normal and look within its containing folder for info.py. This does not seem to be the case, unfortunately.
Thanks for your interest, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
p.s. I don't want to have to modify the path variables, as I have no idea who will be using this toolset, and permissions are likely to be an issue, etc.
I realized I was using imp.load_source incorrectly. The correct syntax for what I wanted to do should have been:
imp.load_source("xlrd",os.path.join(path,"xlrd","__init__.py"))
In the end though, I ended up rewriting my code to not need xlutils at all, because I continued to have import errors that were causing many more problems than were worth dealing with.
In my IronPython script, I'm using standard libary modules like ConfigParser, logging and JSON.
Then I use pyc.py to create an executable. At first I ran into problems, namely '...ImportException: no module named ...'
since they weren't being included in the exe and accompanying dlls.
So I ran a solution from here: IronPython: EXE compiled using pyc.py cannot import module "os" and it mostly worked.
For example, importing 'ConfigParser' would work since in the IronPython 'Lib' folder as a module, it's there as 'ConfigParser.py'. However I'm still having trouble using JSON and logging since they're inside of folders with their name (packages?).
I'm feeling that I'm just missing something simple, and probably need to read up more on python modules and how they really work, but I'm not sure what I should be looking for.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
EDIT:
I can't answer my own question yet, so I'll leave this here.
Somehow got it to work in a really 'hacky' way. There must be another much cleaner solution to this that I'm missing (some option in pyc.py?)
Here's what I did:
1) Made the StdLib.dll file generated from the link above (IronPython: EXE compiled using pyc.py cannot import module "os"). This would be missing the std lib packages.
2) Used SharpDevelop to compile the standard lib packages that weren't included in the above dll following the method here: http://community.sharpdevelop.net/blogs/mattward/archive/2010/03/16/CompilingPythonPackagesWithIronPython.aspx
3) Used SharpDevelop to build my program and tie together all the references.
- Reference to the dlls made in step 2
- Reference to the StdLib.dll made in step 1
Again, there must be a better solution to this.
I've found two ways to compile standard library python packages:
1st way: Individually compile each package into a dll
Using pyc.py, run something like (this example compiles logging package):
ipy pyc.py ".\Lib\logging\__init__.py" ".\Lib\logging\config.py" ".\Lib\logging\handlers.py" /target:dll /out:logging
This creates a logging.dll file, which you can then use like this:
import clr
clr.AddReference('StdLib') #from the compilation of non-package std libraries
clr.AddReference('logging')
import logging
**Note: This is assuming you've run the solution from IronPython: EXE compiled using pyc.py cannot import module "os" to create StdLib.dll
2nd way: Modify the compilation script that generated StdLib.dll
I changed this line:
#Build StdLib.DLL
gb = glob.glob(r".\Lib\*.py")
gb.append("/out:StdLib")
To this:
#Build StdLib.DLL
gb1 = glob.glob(r".\Lib\*.py")
gb2 = glob.glob(r".\Lib\*\*.py")
gb3 = glob.glob(r".\Lib\*\*\*.py")
gb = list(set(gb1 + gb2 + gb3))
gb.append("/out:StdLib")
This includes the subfolders in the Lib directory which get missed in the original regex (only modules get included). Now, packages like xml, json, logging, etc. get included into StdLib.dll