On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 3:15 PM, dieter <die...@handshake.de> wrote: > stefand...@gmail.com writes: >> ... >> The "story" is: In homeassistant (short HA) some modules are installed at >> runtime during first start ("bootstrapping"), and for some reason loading >> the modules fails directly after installing the modules. Subsequent starts >> work fine. >> >> The modules that are installed during bootstrapping are installed to >> `~/.homeassistant/deps/lib/python3.7/site-packages`. Installing the modules >> happens in a different thread than where the modules are imported. (However >> as far as I can tell the importing thread waits for the install to finish.) >> >> Now the interesting thing is that when I start HA in verbose mode, I can see >> that Python is trying not all of the paths that are in `sys.path` (in the >> following snippet I cut out some stuff for brevity. Link to the full log at >> the end). As one can see the >> `~/.homeassistant/deps/lib/python3.7/site-packages` location is not tried >> and hence the import fails: > > When I remember right: > > * "~" is not automatically expanded into the home directory.
Yes, this would be correct. The expansion of ~ into your home directory is actually a shell feature. You can use os.path.expanduser to do the transformation manually, but it won't happen automatically. Good catch. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list