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Asked: 2026-05-29T08:00:05+00:00

According to the Google AppEngine documentation, one should import memcache like this: from google.appengine.api

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According to the Google AppEngine documentation, one should import memcache like this:

from google.appengine.api import memcache

I’m using a virtualenv and I’m creating some scripts to test a library I created for AppEngine. I am not trying to test a website, I am trying to test a specific library that uses memcache. Evidently, without using dev_appserver.py I get an ImportError: No module named google.appengine.api.

I had a look at the source of dev_appserver.py but first I’d like to know if there is a simpler solution that would not require rewriting PATH as Google does.

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is no simple solution, at the minimum you’ll have to setup your Python paths. That’s all the dev_appserver wrapper you linked to does. For testing code / libraries I usually write a simple wrapper that does basically the same thing as dev_appserver is doing.

    In some cases you’ll actually need to go a step further and initialize the stubs as well. If you follow through the dev_appserver code, you’ll be able to see how this is done.

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