Plugins not loading: ImportError: No module named hello_world

[medoix]

I am trying to write a plugin for hippybot but i cannot seem to even get the basic hello_world sample plugin loaded.

I created a file hippybot/plugins/hello_world.py and added the content in the README, i then added the line hippybot.plugins.hello_world to the config (corectly indented) and then went to start the bot and it spits out an error from bot.py and lazy_reload.py saying "ImportError: No module named hello_world" i tried writing my own also and i get the same issue, as soon as i remove this plugin from the config and just leave the defaults it works great.

Any ideas?

[1stvamp]

@medoix could you paste in the full output? Can't replicate on my machine.

[1stvamp]

@medoix also your full hippybot.conf might be handy too, ta!

[medoix]

Error:

(hippybot)steven@server:/data/programs/hippybot/hippybot$ hippybot -c hippybot.conf
ERROR: No module named hello_world
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/data/programs/hippybot/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hippybot-1.0.0-py2.7.egg/hippybot/bot.py", line 256, in run
    bot = HippyBot(self.config._sections)
  File "/data/programs/hippybot/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hippybot-1.0.0-py2.7.egg/hippybot/bot.py", line 69, in __init__
    self.load_plugins()
  File "/data/programs/hippybot/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hippybot-1.0.0-py2.7.egg/hippybot/bot.py", line 190, in load_plugins
    module = do_import(path)
  File "/data/programs/hippybot/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hippybot-1.0.0-py2.7.egg/hippybot/bot.py", line 26, in do_import
    mod = __import__(name)
  File "/data/programs/hippybot/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/lazy_reload.py", line 83, in _lazy_reload_import
    m = _real_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist, level)
ImportError: No module named hello_world

[medoix]

Conf:

[connection]
username = 22974_157931
password = PASSWORD
nickname = HC Bot
channels = Test
           Infrastructure
[plugins]
load = hcbot.plugins.hello_world
       hcbot.plugins.mexican_wave
[hipchat]
api_auth_token = xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
respond_to_all = true

[medoix]

Might be worth noting that i am running this using virtualenv on ubuntu it works if i change hello_world to rot13 so im really confused.

[1stvamp]

@medoix the only thing I can see that might be iffy is the fact your namespace paths in plugins.load config point to hcbot rather than hippybot if you're putting them in hippybot/plugins/ rather than in an importable module named hcbot in your PYTHON_PATH.

[medoix]

ahh sorry i posted the wrong config (trying different things) the correct config says hippybot in the plugin path.

[1stvamp]

Aha. That makes sense. Can you post the contents of hello_world.py? Only other thing the module might fail to load is if it fails to compile. I know you said it was just the contents of the example from the readme, but I just copied it in tried it myself and it was fine.

[medoix]

hello_world.py located in /data/programs/hippbot/hippybot/hippybot/plugins

# hello_world.py
from hippybot.decorators import botcmd, directcmd
class Plugin(object):
    global_commands = ['hello_world']
    command_aliases = {'hi!': 'hello'}
    @botcmd
    def hello_world(self, mess, args):
        return u'Hello world!'
    @directcmd
    def hello(self, mess, args):
        return u'Well hello there..'

[1stvamp]

Ah, I'd actually re-tested the class based example, however changing "hcbot" back to "hippybot":

from hippybot.decorators import directcmd

@directcmd
def hello_world(bot, mess, args):
    return u'Hello world!'

It still works. :-/

[medoix]

It is all hippybot now, i actually deleted everything and just started fresh, i did have it working at one point but now im testing again and it just fails to load the hello_world plugin. I have it running (not really running) on an EC2 instance if you like i can give you access but im at a loss as to what is actually happening.