Note that in the `sys.path`variable the path is given as absolute path (I only
wrote it relative to `~` in the in my post, but in the script the absolute path
is used everywhere). See line 2:
```
['/home/pyuser/.homeassistant',
'/home/pyuser/.homeassistant/deps/lib/python3.7/site-packages',
'/home/pyuser',
'/usr/local/lib/python37.zip',
'/usr/local/lib/python3.7',
'/usr/local/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload',
'/home/pyuser/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages',
'/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages']
```
Also by the time the import happens, the directory is existing. It is not
existing from the beginning, but I also tried calling
`importlib.invalidate_caches()` after installing the packages, which should
force python to check the directories again.
Another interesting thing that I found out is that if I use the (now
deprecated) `imp.find_module('sqlalchemy')` it returns the correct path.
However if I do the same with `importlib.util.find_spec('sqlalchemy')` the
package is not found! (`importlib` is the suggested replacement for `imp`).
To me it really looks like a bug in `importlib`.
Am Montag, 30. Juli 2018 07:16:01 UTC+2 schrieb dieter:
> When I remember right:
>
> * Python silently ignores non existent directories in "sys.path"
> * "~" is not automatically expanded into the home directory.
>
> This would suggest, remplace "~/.homeassistent/..." by
> "/home/pyuser/.homeassistent/..." and try again.
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