Note that in the `sys.path`variable the path is given as absolute path (I only wrote it relative to `~` in the in my post, but in the script the absolute path is used everywhere). See line 2:
``` ['/home/pyuser/.homeassistant', '/home/pyuser/.homeassistant/deps/lib/python3.7/site-packages', '/home/pyuser', '/usr/local/lib/python37.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python3.7', '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/lib-dynload', '/home/pyuser/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages'] ``` Also by the time the import happens, the directory is existing. It is not existing from the beginning, but I also tried calling `importlib.invalidate_caches()` after installing the packages, which should force python to check the directories again. Another interesting thing that I found out is that if I use the (now deprecated) `imp.find_module('sqlalchemy')` it returns the correct path. However if I do the same with `importlib.util.find_spec('sqlalchemy')` the package is not found! (`importlib` is the suggested replacement for `imp`). To me it really looks like a bug in `importlib`. Am Montag, 30. Juli 2018 07:16:01 UTC+2 schrieb dieter: > When I remember right: > > * Python silently ignores non existent directories in "sys.path" > * "~" is not automatically expanded into the home directory. > > This would suggest, remplace "~/.homeassistent/..." by > "/home/pyuser/.homeassistent/..." and try again. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list