ImportError in Python

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I tried to execute a program using geonames_rdf, but I cant execute it by this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "geo1.py", line 13, in <module>
 import geonames.config.log
ImportError: No module named config.log

I read several posts abot ImportError and I check the path of the system and it is correct. I'm working in a VirtualBox with a fresh Ubuntu 16.04.

The imports of my program are:

import sys
import os
import os.path
import logging
import geonames.config.log
import geonames.compat
import geonames.adapters.search

I've also tried add this line:

sys.path.append('/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/geonames/')

The command that I used to instal this package was

sudo pip install geonames_rdf

You might try `from geonames import config` `from config import log` to narrow down what the problem is — Patrick Haugh, Dec 16 '16 at 16:05
try `import geonames ; print(geonames.__file__)` to see what file/module you import. Maybe you have somewhere `geonames.py` and you import this file. — furas, Dec 16 '16 at 16:05
@PatrickHaugh I tried your line and the error is with `from geonames import config` — Gonzalo Molina, Dec 16 '16 at 23:17
@furas when I have tried your code I see I'm importing __init__.pyc — Gonzalo Molina, Dec 16 '16 at 23:27
do you see full path to `__init__.pyc` ? if not then it imports local file. Maybe you have local folder `geonames` — furas, Dec 16 '16 at 23:44
@furas the full path is: `/home/gonzalo/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/geonames/__init__.pcy` — Gonzalo Molina, Dec 17 '16 at 00:03
@furas in that folder there are also a geonames.pyc, do you think that geonames.pyc is the correct file? — Gonzalo Molina, Dec 17 '16 at 00:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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Try appending site-packages not dist-packages. A bit of searching it looks like dist-packages is debian specific.

sys.path.append('/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/geonames/')

Reason:

Since you're installing 3rd party python package via pip it will not go into dist-packages and python rightfully cannot find it on the path.

Reference link: What's the difference between dist-packages and site-packages?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered Dec 16 '16 at 16:08

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The foldersite-packages is empty, how can I install geonames there? Thank you for your help:) – Gonzalo Molina Dec 16 '16 at 17:29
@GonzaloMolina I would try doing a "which python" in your shell. If your are in a virtualenv the path may be different. I would navigate to the folder and visually verify that the folders are there. doing a "sudo pip install geonames" should install it for you correctly. Thats odd – Kelvin Dec 16 '16 at 21:52
I'm not using a virtualenv... how can I show you my folders? – Gonzalo Molina Dec 16 '16 at 23:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 06 '17 at 21:33

I just tried to use geonames_rdf, but I didn't know I needed it to do a geonames search so I installed geonames first, then discovered I had to install fiona and gdal (I'm on Windows, had to install these two using prebuilt whl from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/). Don't know why these dependencies aren't baked into geonames.

Anyway once I then installed geonames_rdf it seemed to install into the geonames folder in c:\Python27\lib\site-packages, added at least the adapters package. In c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\geonames there is a config folder with log.py in it.

ImportError in Python

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