Why doesn't import work?

[Timothy Grant]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:34 PM, ssecorp <circularfunc at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have in Lib/site-packages a module named pdfminer. when I do import
> pdfminer it complains:
>
>>>> import pdfminer
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
>    import pdfminer
> ImportError: No module named pdfminer
>
>
> I created a file pdfminer.py and put it in site-packages and that
> works.
>
> so I apparently can't import a directory pdfminer. In the directory
> pdfminer there are 3 other directoriees and inside them python-files.
>
> how would I import them?
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set your PYTHONPATH environment to include the directory where your module is.

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tjg. [Timothy Grant]