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eerimoq / bincopy

Mangling of various file formats that conveys binary information (Motorola S-Record, Intel HEX, TI-TXT, Verilog VMEM, ELF and binary files).
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Package permissions issue #6

Closed bobbycNH closed 7 years ago

bobbycNH commented 7 years ago

I'm having a weird issue that, to be honest, I can't imagine how it's a bincopy issue but it doesn't appear to affect any other packages. When our admin bootstraps a Windows machine he installs bincopy (and several other packages). Later, a user runs python and attempts to run import bincopy and gets an ImportError. Logging in as admin, I can successfully perform the import.

We suspected it was a permissions error so we tested our theory by changing the owner of the Libs directory to the present user (recursively) and ensuring proper permissions were set, but it made no difference. We then logged in as admin and removed bincopy (pip uninstall bincopy), then reinstalled as the user account (pip install bincopy) and everything worked fine. In both cases bincopy was installed into C:\Python27\Libs\site-packages which is in the search path for both users.

I looked through the package and can't find anything that should be affected by installing user. Have you seen anything like this? I have been installing and using bincopy under Linux for a while without any such issues.

eerimoq commented 7 years ago

No, I've not had any problems to import bincopy on Linux and Windows.

Was the error message ImportError: No module named bincopy? In that case it really sounds like a path problem. If you didn't already, print sys.path to get a list of the paths that are searched when importing a module.

bobbycNH commented 7 years ago

Yeah, I thought the same thing but I verified that both users were installing into C:\Python27\Libs\site-packages so I can't figure how anything could go wrong. Just to double check, I verified that both path users have site-packages in sys.path.

Weird.