I am having trouble importing modules from within xonsh script that are installed in to the virtual environment.
I installed the virtual environment using vox
xontrib load vox
vox activate venv
pip install PyPDF2
Here is my minimal example
#!/usr/bin/env xonsh
import PyPDF2
If I run this from within the Python interpreter it works:
$ python
Python 3.8.10 (default, Nov 26 2021, 20:14:08)
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import PyPDF2
>>>
If I try to run the xonsh script as a script I get the following:
$ ./minimaltest.x
sh
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apport/report.py:13: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
import fnmatch, glob, traceback, errno, sys, atexit, locale, imp, stat
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/xonsh", line 4, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xonsh/__amalgam__.py", line 24019, in main
_failback_to_other_shells(args, err)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xonsh/__amalgam__.py", line 23983, in _failback_to_other_shells
raise err
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xonsh/__amalgam__.py", line 24017, in main
return main_xonsh(args)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xonsh/__amalgam__.py", line 24060, in main_xonsh
run_script_with_cache(
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xonsh/__amalgam__.py", line 3043, in run_script_with_cache
run_compiled_code(ccode, glb, loc, mode)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/xonsh/__amalgam__.py", line 2948, in run_compiled_code
func(code, glb, loc)
File "./minimaltest.xsh", line 2, in <module>
import PyPDF2
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyPDF2'
Any thoughts about what might be wrong?
xonsh can only import modules that exist in the same venv that it is installed in. If you install xonsh into the same venv as PyPDF2 it should work.