[Distutils] Problem importing pylirc egg

[Ian Bicking]

Philippe Normand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i've easy_installed pylirc from sourceforge as an Egg. It's correctly
> compiled/installed on my system. But i can't import it, though it's
> found by pkg_resources:
> 
> 
>>>>import pylirc
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> ImportError: No module named pylirc
> 
>>>>import pkg_resources
>>>>pkg_resources.require('pylirc')
> 
> [pylirc 0.0.5
> (/home/phil/lib/python2.4/pylirc-0.0.5-py2.4-linux-i686.egg)]
> 
> What am i supposed to do with that Requirement object so as to get
> pylirc module in my namespace ?

You have to require and then import:

import pkg_resources
pkg_resources.require('pylirc')
import pylirc

Also, if you list pylirc as a requirement in your setup.py of your 
pylirc-using-project and then require your own package, this will make 
sure pylirc is also required (along with any other requirements you put 
in setup.py).

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