Did you build the extension as a debug build, but you're trying to use it in a release build Python? That may not work (it may depend on the OS, I don't know the compatibility details on MacOS)...
On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 16:02, Pieter van Oostrum <piete...@vanoostrum.org> wrote: > > Patrick Stinson <patrickk...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I have a module named rtmidi, and its C submodule named rtmidi/_rtmidi. The > > distills script builds successfully and successfully creates a build/lib > > dir with a rtmidi dir in it and the submodule file > > rtmidi/_rtmidi.cpython-36dm-darwin.so. I have set PYTHONPATH to this lib > > dir, but rtmidi/__init__.py gives the following error: > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "main.py", line 6, in <module> > > from pkmidicron import MainWindow, util, ports > > File "/Users/patrick/dev/pkmidicron/pkmidicron/__init__.py", line 1, in > > <module> > > from .mainwindow import * > > File "/Users/patrick/dev/pkmidicron/pkmidicron/mainwindow.py", line 2, in > > <module> > > import rtmidi > > File > > "/Users/patrick/dev/pkmidicron/pyrtmidi/build/lib/rtmidi/__init__.py", line > > 1, in <module> > > from ._rtmidi import * > > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'rtmidi._rtmidi’ > > > > How does the module finder work in the import system? I assume ti > > automatically resolves the name _rtmidi.cpython-36dm-darwin.so to _rtmidi? > > I didn’t have any luck reading the docs on the import system. > > Are you running python 3.6? > > I tried this on python 3.7 and it worked, but the file is called > _rtmidi.cpython-37m-darwin.so there (37 for python3.7, and the d is missing, > I don't know what that indicates). > -- > Pieter van Oostrum > www: http://pieter.vanoostrum.org/ > PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list