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. """ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
