On Friday, October 31, 2014 1:02:44 PM UTC-4, Dave Angel wrote: > On 10/31/2014 12:46 PM, robert brook wrote: > > I am able to install both of these packages on my mac at home and it works > > well. > > > > I am trying to install on windows 7 at work and it fails. PDFKit is trying > > to find the wkh package and it cannot. I have entered the full path to the > > exe for the environment variables and the error below is spit out. > > > > If I explicitly cd into the directory that has the executable the script > > works fine > > > >>>> import os > >>>> path='C:\\wkhtmltopdf\\bin\\' > >>>> os.chdir(path) > >>>> pdfkit.from_string('Hello!', 'out.pdf') > > Loading pages (1/6) #this works after cd into the exe directory > > > > > > Where can I specify the path to the executable? > > > > ************* > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > > File > > "C:\Applications\python_33_32_bit\lib\site-packages\pdfkit-0.4.1-py3.3.eg > > g\pdfkit\api.py", line 66, in from_string > > File > > "C:\Applications\python_33_32_bit\lib\site-packages\pdfkit-0.4.1-py3.3.eg > > g\pdfkit\pdfkit.py", line 39, in __init__ > > File > > "C:\Applications\python_33_32_bit\lib\site-packages\pdfkit-0.4.1-py3.3.eg > > g\pdfkit\configuration.py", line 27, in __init__ > > OSError: No wkhtmltopdf executable found: "b''" > > If this file exists please check that this process can read it. Otherwise > > please > > install wkhtmltopdf - > > https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit/wiki/Installing > > -wkhtmltopdf > > > > ********************** > > > > I don't know your particular module, but generally, you want modules > installed on your sys.path. Either install it there, or add the > directory to sys.path (which is a list) > > I'd suggest doing the latter, then figure whether a reinstall is called > for. It looks like you installed it in the root directory of C:, rather > than in the site-packages. > > > -- > DaveA
I see the problem. The installation of the package did not drop down the files that the executable is looking for. Thanks -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list