Why doesn't import work?

[ssecorp]

I have in Lib/site-packages a module named pdfminer. when I do import
pdfminer it complains:

>>import pdfminer

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#3 >", line 1, in <module>
import pdfminer
ImportError: No module named pdfminer


I created a file pdfminer.py and put it in site-packages and that
works.

so I apparently can't import a directory pdfminer. In the directory
pdfminer there are 3 other directoriees and inside them python-files.

how would I import them?

[Sean DiZazzo]

Re: Why doesn't import work?

On Aug 4, 3:34 pm, ssecorp <circularf...@g mail.comwrote:

I have in Lib/site-packages a module named pdfminer. when I do import
pdfminer it complains:
>

>import pdfminer

>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#3 >", line 1, in <module>
    import pdfminer
ImportError: No module named pdfminer
>
I created a file pdfminer.py and put it in site-packages and that
works.
>
so I apparently can't import a directory pdfminer. In the directory
pdfminer there are 3 other directoriees and inside them python-files.
>
how would I import them?

Make packages?

I just (finally) got around to learning this the other day...

make a file called __init__.py in each of you lib subfolders
in each do something like:

all = ["file1.py", "file2.py", "file3.py"]

Then you should be able to import each directory as a package, and
access the individual modules.

~Sean

[Timothy Grant]

Re: Why doesn't import work?

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:34 PM, ssecorp <circularfunc@g mail.comwrote:

I have in Lib/site-packages a module named pdfminer. when I do import
pdfminer it complains:
>

>>>import pdfminer

>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#3 >", line 1, in <module>
import pdfminer
ImportError: No module named pdfminer
>
>
I created a file pdfminer.py and put it in site-packages and that
works.
>
so I apparently can't import a directory pdfminer. In the directory
pdfminer there are 3 other directoriees and inside them python-files.
>
how would I import them?
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>

set your PYTHONPATH environment to include the directory where your module is.

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Stand Fast,
tjg. [Timothy Grant]

[alex23]

Re: Why doesn't import work?

On Aug 5, 8:34 am, ssecorp <circularf...@g mail.comwrote:

I have in Lib/site-packages a module named pdfminer. when I do import
pdfminer it complains:
>
so I apparently can't import a directory pdfminer. In the directory
pdfminer there are 3 other directoriees and inside them python-files.

Are the 3 directories called pdflib, samples & tools?

how would I import them?

The simple answer is: you -shouldn't- be.

PDFMiner is a set of tools -to be used from the command line- rather
than a PDF-handling library. You're not meant to unpack PDFMiner into
site-packages, instead you should unpack it to a temporary location
and run make. Please read the documentation on the PDFMiner site, it's
pretty clear that it's a suite of tools.

If you're after a library for dealing programmaticall y with PDF files,
try pyPDF:

http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/