The dotted notation is used for relative imports, meaning relative to a
path in *sys.path*. lxml is installed in my user *site-packages* directory
- there it is at the bottom on my system:
C:\Users\tom>py -c "import sys;print('\n'.join(sys.path))"
C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\python312.zip
C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\DLLs
C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib
C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312
C:\Users\tom\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages
C:\Users\tom\AppData\Roaming\Python
C:\Users\tom\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\win32
C:\Users\tom\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\win32\lib
C:\Users\tom\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\Pythonwin
*C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages*
lxml.html means find the *lxml* package and then the html subpackage *relative
to it* (change paths for your system) starting at
*C:\Users\tom\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python312\Lib\site-packages.*
You can use dotted paths if your import subdirectories are set up right,
which they are with lxml (change paths to suit your system) -
import lxml.html
PATH = r"C:\temp\freemind\basic_freemind.xml"
htmltree = lxml.html.parse(PATH)
print(htmltree)
or this -
import lxml.html as html
PATH = r"C:\temp\freemind\basic_freemind.xml"
htmltree = html.parse(PATH)
print(htmltree)
Read Sec 5.2 of the Python docs at
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/import.html
On Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 8:00:41 PM UTC-4 Félix wrote:
> *(All this was tried with the Latest LXML version 5.3.0 )*
>
> I tried installing lxml with:
>
> pip install lxml
>
> Seems to have worked, but when importing a freemind file, the imported
> lxml library does not have the 'html' member, and the import just errors
> out.
>
> When exploring why the lxml library did not have any valid members, like
> html or etree as per Leo uses it and was also in the official lxml docs, I
> tried something :
>
> If I replace the import at the top of the leoImport.py file with :
>
>
> *from lxml import html*instead of:
> *import lxml*
>
> Then, replacing that line further down the file:
>
> *htmltree = lxml.html.parse(path)*
> with this one:
>
> *htmltree = html.parse(path)*
> ... makes everything works!! Wow! :)
>
> I'm a total newb with python so I'm wondering if someone can explain this,
> and if they have the same behavior experience in Leo with importing
> FreeMind (.mm or .mm.html files) in leo.
>
> Should I open an issue on github and suggest importing and using it this
> way?
>
>
>
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