The package list shows the package is installed, but the import package throws an ImportError
I have a package that is hosted in my VCS. I launched:
$ pip install -vvv git+https://myvcs.com/myprotos
Here is the magazine. You will notice that it runs a custom script in the middle of the installation that actually creates the source files in the project. See this question for details on what it does .
Collecting git+https://myvcs.com/myprotos
Cloning https://myvcs.com/myprotos to /private/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-cFzP3I-build
Running command git clone -q https://myvcs.com/myprotos /private/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-cFzP3I-build
Running setup.py (path:/private/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-cFzP3I-build/setup.py) egg_info for package from git+https://myvcs.com/myprotos
Running command python setup.py egg_info
running egg_info
creating pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info
writing pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest file 'pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'pip-egg-info/myprotos.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
Source in /private/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-cFzP3I-build has version 0.0.1, which satisfies requirement myprotos==0.0.1 from git+https://myvcs.com/myprotos
Installing collected packages: myprotos
Running setup.py install for myprotos: started
Running command /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-cFzP3I-build/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-M03grb-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile
running install
Grabbing github.com/google/protobuf...
Building Python protos...
running build
running install_egg_info
running egg_info
creating myprotos.egg-info
writing myprotos.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to myprotos.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to myprotos.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
writing manifest file 'myprotos.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest file 'myprotos.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
writing manifest file 'myprotos.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
Copying myprotos.egg-info to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/myprotos-0.0.1-py2.7.egg-info
running install_scripts
writing list of installed files to '/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-M03grb-record/install-record.txt'
Running setup.py install for myprotos: finished with status 'done'
Removing source in /private/var/folders/3t/4qwkfyr903d0b7db7by2kj6r0000gn/T/pip-cFzP3I-build
Successfully installed myprotos-0.0.1
Cleaning up...
So everything seems to be successfully installed. Even the pip list
outputs work :
$ pip list
.
.
.
myprotos (0.0.1)
.
.
.
However, it throws an ImportError if I try to import the package.
$ python
Python 2.7.13 (default, Jul 18 2017, 09:17:00)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import myprotos
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named myprotos
What could be here? Probably a build script failure on install, or my package misidentified or what could it be?
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The name of the egg is not necessarily the same as the name of the module or package it provides. In fact, it is quite common that these names are different. One egg can contain several packages, so it is generally not possible to use the same name. Moreover, the egg name can contain dashes and other characters that are not allowed in the Python module name.
The directory myprotos.egg-info
in your Python directory site-packages
should contain a file named top_level.txt
that lists all modules and top-level packages that export eggs.
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