My sytem: Windows, Python 2.7
I downloaded a package and want to include it in my script.
After I unzipped the package, here is my folder structure:
- Work
- xlwt-0.7.3 (contains a
setup.py
)
- xlwt (contains
__init__.py
among others)
My script runs from the top-level (Work) folder.
Using import xlwt
in my script produces:
ImportError: No Module named xlwt
How do I import xlwt?
First off, try using easy_install or pip to install it into your pythonpath:
easy_install xlwt
or
pip install xlwt
These are python package managers/installers and make the whole process so much easier. But if you have already downloaded it manually, you still need to install it:
python setup.py install
Then it will be available in your python path for import. If you find that you don't have easy_install, manually download this: http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py and do python ez_setup.py
, and then continue the instructions. Best choice though is to install pip and use it for your package installations. If you have easy_install, but not pip, you can do easy_install pip
C:\Users\xxxxxxx\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37\Scripts>pip install xlwt
Collecting xlwt
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/44/48/def306413b25c3d01753603b1a222a011b8621aed27cd7f89cbc27e6b0f4/xlwt-1.3.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (99kB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 102kB 339kB/s
Installing collected packages: xlwt
Successfully installed xlwt-1.3.0