Question

I installed oauth2 by just downloading tar.gz package and doing python setup.py install. However I’m getting this error

bash-3.2$ python
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jul 31 2011, 19:30:53) 
[GCC 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import oauth2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named oauth2
>>>

The path to oauth2 is in PYTHONPATH (so that shouldn’t be the issue) as I added this line to ~/.bashrc:

PYTHOHPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/Users/me/Downloads/oauth2-1.5.211/

However, when I do this:

bash-3.2$ cd /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/
bash-3.2$ ls
Extras      Headers     Mac     Python      Resources   _CodeSignature  bin     include     lib
bash-3.2$ Python
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86882M, Nov 30 2010, 09:39:13) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5494)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import oauth2
>>> 

it works just fine. Any idea how I should install oauth2 to avoid ImportError from python?

P/S: this is the simlink for python command

python -> ../../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2.7

Answer 1

I don’t have an answer, but I have some general suggestions:

Run python setup.py install with the same python that you intend to use it from (in your case one is capitalised, the other is not).

I always export my bashrc variables to ensure they are global, but I am not sure that is your issue here.

When running scripts in the pwd, always run them with ./. In your case run python as ./Python to have confidence that you are running the executable you think you are running.

Check your spelling of PYTHONPATH. If you think you have it right, do import sys; print('\n'.join(sys.path)) from within your python session and ensure that the appropriate directory is there