[Python.NET] importing eggs. does pythonnet not use respect the easy-install.pth file?

John Burkhart

2013-08-23 11:09:02 UTC

This is my current work-around

## Seems to be a required hack for pythonnet
if 'pythonnet' in sys.executable:
try:
import site
site.addsitedir(r'C:\Python27\lib\site-packages')
except:
print sys.path

Post by John Burkhart
Hello,
I have a pythonnet installation that works fine for the most part.
However, whenever I try to import a module that was built with
easy_install, I have to explicitly add the full egg path to the sys.path
variable. Does pythonnet not respect the easy-install.pth file?
[code]

import south

File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named south

import sys
sys.path.append(r'C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\south-0.8.2-py2.7.egg')
import south
import openpyxl

File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named openpyxl
sys.path.append(r'C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\openpyxl-1.6.1-py2.7.egg')

import openpyxl

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[code]
import sys; sys.__plen = len(sys.path)
./python_distutils_extra-2.37-py2.7.egg
./openpyxl-1.6.1-py2.7.egg
./south-0.8.2-py2.7.egg
import sys; new=sys.path[sys.__plen:]; del sys.path[sys.__plen:];
p=getattr(sys,'__egginsert',0); sys.path[p:p]=new; sys.__egginsert =
p+len(new)
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