Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Python import error on swig modules

[Sakthivel Velumani]

Hi Michael,

I ran the qa file after "make install". " clearly you've tried installing, but that doesn't mean that's the way you're testing" I don't understand what this means. I do "sudo make install, sudo ldconfig" and run the python file. I tried commenting the lines you said but still gave the same import error. Then I manually added the directory /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/<module_name> to PYTHONPATH and it worked - the test ran successfully. However /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages was already included in PYTHONPATH. Will not python look for files in subdirectory also? If not how to make it to do that?

Best regards,

Sakthivel

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 1:30 AM, Michael Dickens <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Sakthivel - It's not clear whether you are trying to test in place or after "make install" ... clearly you've tried installing, but that doesn't mean that's the way you're testing. Your info on the install location & path seems correct; maybe there's an import error in the compiled SWIG module? You can try manually by doing "import <module_name>" directly in Python. This may or not fail. If it does, one option is to edit the file "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/<module_name>/<module_name>_swig.py" and look for the function "swig_import_helper" for Python >= 2.7.0 (near the top of the file), and comment out the "try:", "except:", and final function line ("return importlib.import_module('_<module_name>_swig')"). With those lines commented out, you should see the actual import error. Hope this helps! - MLD

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Sakthivel Velumani wrote:

I have been trying to do the simplest qa test for my qpsk demod C++ block from the tutorials. When I run the qa_<block_name>.py im getting an import error: No module named <module_name>_swig. This happens for every C++ blocks.

I can see that <module_name>_swig.py is being installed into 

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/<module_name>/<module_name>_swig.py, pyc and .pyo .

And when I checked sys.path in python, I can see the path /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages along with many other paths.

Any help would be appreciated.