thanks, I used the site-packages approach.
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 31, 2010, at 9:24 PM, Plumo wrote: > > My app uses Google's gdata client library: > http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/ > > modules/ > gdata/ > atom/ > test.py > > test.py imports gdata, which in turn imports atom. Running test.py directly > works fine. > But within a web2py app I get *ImportError: No module named atom* > * > * > How can I import this module? > > > You might try adding your modules directory to sys.path. Something like > this: > > from gluon.fileutils import abspath > path = abspath('applications', request.application, 'modules') > if path not in sys.path: > sys.path.append(path) > > import_local has explicit knowledge of the modules directory, so it doesn't > need sys.path. But the import statements in gdata don't. > > > Alternatively, put gdata and atom in <web2py>/site-packages/, which is > already in sys.path. >
