On Jun 2, 5:48 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 3, 8:23 am, Chanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is probably a simple question to most of you, but here goes. > > I've downloaded the xlrd (version 0.6.1) module and placed in in the > > site-packages folder. Now, when I write a script, I type: > > > import sys > > import xlrd > > > When I run it, there is an import error saying there is no module > > named xlrd. However when I type sys.path, the site-packages folder is > > definitely in the path. Do I somehow need to run the xlrd setup.py > > first before importing? > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > From the xlrd home-page (http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm): > """ > Installation: > > * Windows only: download and run this installer > xlrd-0.6.1.win32.exe. Any platform: download this ZIP file > xlrd-0.6.1.zip which you unzip into a suitable directory, then cd to > that directory, and do "python setup.py install". > """ > > From the xlrd README file: > """ > Installation: > > * On Windows: use the installer. > * Any OS: Unzip the .zip file into a suitable directory, chdir to > that directory, then do "python setup.py install". > * If PYDIR is your Python installation directory: the main files > are in PYDIR/Lib/site-packages/xlrd (except for Python 2.1 where they > will be in PYDIR/xlrd), the docs are in the doc subdirectory, and > there's a sample script: PYDIR/Scripts/runxlrd.py > * If os.sep != "/": make the appropriate adjustments. > """
Thanks, turns out I just had to type "setup.py install" in the command line, no "python" required. Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list