ImportError: No module named xlrd

[murphyke]

A coworker complained about this, so I tried it myself. When I try to pip-install cutplace in a fresh virtual environment, I get "ImportError: No module named xlrd". I see xlrd specified as a requirement in cutplace's setup.py, however, so I don't understand what's going on. Apologies if this is some sort of configuration error on my side. Disclaimer: I'm not a Python guru.

Versions: Python 2.7.2, setuptools 0.6c11, pip 1.3.1 (from running python in the activated environment, importing setuptools and pip and printing them). Mac OS X 10.7, BTW.

pip install -r requirements.txt 
Downloading/unpacking cutplace (from -r requirements.txt (line 1))
  Downloading cutplace-0.7.1.zip (580kB): 580kB downloaded
  Running setup.py egg_info for package cutplace
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 16, in <module>
      File "/Users/Me/Documents/code/python/test-env/build/cutplace/setup.py", line 33, in <module>
        from cutplace import _cutplace
      File "cutplace/_cutplace.py", line 26, in <module>
        import xlrd
    ImportError: No module named xlrd
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<string>", line 16, in <module>

  File "/Users/Me/Documents/code/python/test-env/build/cutplace/setup.py", line 33, in <module>

    from cutplace import _cutplace

  File "cutplace/_cutplace.py", line 26, in <module>

    import xlrd

ImportError: No module named xlrd

[roskakori]

xlrd is intended to be required only if you need Excel format, nevertheless cutplace always tries to import it. Apparently this is a bug that should be fixed.

As a workaround, try this:

$ pip install --upgrade xlrd
$ pip install --upgrade cutplace

[leipzig]

to clarify this occurs because setup.py imports cutplace/_cutplace.py which in turns imports xlrd before the install_requires is encountered

if you comment out that import and replace _cutplace.DESCRIPTION variable in setup.py with a hard-coded "validate data stored in CSV, PRN, ODS or Excel files", the installation works fine

[roskakori]

Fixed in repository, scheduled for release sometime next week.

[murphyke]

Just wondering if 0.7.2 is going to be released with that import fix.

[roskakori]

0.7.2 is cancelled, the code was just was too screwed up in too many ways.

The fix has been rescheduled to 0.8.0, which brings to the code base back to a solid state. As part of #74 the dependency handling has already moved to a clean setup.py provided by pyscaffold and validated by Travis CI, see https://travis-ci.org/roskakori/cutplace.

[roskakori]

0.8.x is live, so this is finally fixed for good.