Question

My Python couldn’t figure out the submodules when I was trying to import reportlab.graphics.shapes like this:

>>> from reportlab.graphics.shapes import Drawing

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#14>", line 1, in <module>
    from reportlab.graphics.shapes import Drawing
ImportError: No module named shapes

I have copied the reportlab package to /site-packages and I can import module reportlab.graphics successfully.

My Python version is 2.7.3.

Could anyone help me to fix this problem?

Answer 1

As @dan-boa pointed out, you can add paths to the module search path, but since you can find the parent module, I doubt that this is your root problem.

Do you have some left-over installation of the module at another path? You can check the path where it is finding the parent package (reportlab) by executing:

import reportlab
print reportlab.__file__

If this is indeed the path you were expecting, then try this recursively with the the sub-modules, until you can see where the problem is. Perhaps, your package is corrupted? Try manually checking in the path returned if you can find the files/modules in question.

If this is not the path you were expecting, clean-up the installation from this 2nd path and try again.

Finally, in case you do find that it is a path problem, instead of adding the path each time using sys.path.append, you can add it to PYTHONPATH