root@raspberrypi:~# python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Jan 13 2013, 11:20:46)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from gps import gps
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name gps
>>> exit ()
it doesn't seem to work. Installed debian packages: gpsd, gpsd-clients, python-gps, libgps20, libgps-dev
I tried it on an Ubuntu machine and it worked just fine:
$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:51:14)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from gps import gps
>>>
First, make sure the file following files are present (save a directory being different due to be different):
/usr/lib/pyshared/python2.7/gps/packet.so
/usr/lib/pyshared/python2.7/gps/clienthelpers.so
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gps-3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gps/misc.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gps/client.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gps/fake.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gps/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gps/gps.py
This can be done by running:
dpkg -L python-gps
Also make sure there's no gps.py laying around in the directory you're running python from as that might screw the importer up.
It might be useful to add that even after removing gps.py, I had a file called gps.pyc which was also creating this problem. u remove this file and then problem vanishes..
