[Geany-Users] Can't import local module

[Lex Trotman]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 at 00:36, Paul Marlin <wurfsendungen at biketrain.net> wrote:
>
> I started Geany from the Ubunto menu.

I suspected so, (most) desktops start the application directly without
running a shell.  But the shell is the thing that reads your .bashrc
or .profile or wherever you set PYTHONPATH.  So without the shell
being run first, geany is started with an environment that does not
include PYTHONPATH.

You can confirm this by starting Geany from the terminal not the menu.

The likely solution is to make the menu run a shell script that runs
geany, and maybe thats how idle is launched.  Also some desktop menu
editors have an option to run the command in a shell built in, I'm not
a Ubuntist so I don't know what it has, probably check first and make
a start script if needed.

Cheers
Lex

>
> I ran:
>
> import sys
>
> print(sys.path)
>
> First I tried Geany and got
>
> /tmp/geany_run_script_UR8SC0.sh: 7: ./sys: Permission denied
> ------------------
> (program exited with code: 126)
>
> Then I tried Idle and got
>
> ['/home/paul/py/test', '/home/paul', '/usr/bin', '/usr/lib/python37.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.7', '/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', '/home/paul/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']
>
> From the terminal I got
>
> ['', '/usr/lib/python37.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.7', '/usr/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', '/home/paul/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages']
>
> I think I see the problem.  Python is looking in
>
> /home/paul/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages
>
> but I was sure I added
>
> /home/paul/py
>
> to PYTHONPATH
>
> How can I change the path?  An a rhetorical question.  Why is Idle smarter?
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> Paul
> =======================================================================
>
> On 12/14/19 8:28 AM, Georg Klingenberg wrote:
>
> an whilst you are at it set up a virtual environment (venv) to keep the versions nicely apart (batteries are included);
> in Geany, each environment corresponds to a particular project (with its respective settings)..
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Lex Trotman
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2019 10:22 PM
> To: Geany general discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Geany-Users] Can't import local module
>
> How are you starting Geany?  Its possible you are starting it in a way
> that PYTHONPATH is not set.  Perhaps test it by running a small Python
> program with Geany to print sys.path.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 at 02:54, paul Marlin <wurfsendungen at biketrain.net> wrote:
>
>
> This is a variation of the many questions complaining that one can't import exotic external modules, even though the import works from the terminal.  The many answers suggest fixing the execute command in the Build screen. The difference here is that I can't import a module from my own machine, but that it works at both the terminal and Idle.  I suspect my problem is a PATH issue.  Geany seems like a very nice editor/IDE.  But if I can't import even my own modules, it's not very useful.
>
> My simplified directory structure:
>
> py - root for storing python MODULES (apps) and a module of user defined functions (included in PYTHONPATH)
>
> ----| main
>
>          main.py
>
> ----| common (for storing functions accessible by multiple modules
>
>          fun.py
>
> The code:
>
> main.py
>
> from common import fun
>
> fun.test()
>
> fun.py
>
> def test():
>
>     print('testing')
>
> Ouput from Idle
>
> ========================== RESTART: C:/py/test/main.py =========================
> testing
> >>>
>
> Output from Geany
>
>
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'py'
>
> Original exception was:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "test.py", line 1, in <module>
>     from py.common import fun
> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'py'
>
>
>
>
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