Unable to import pypi module

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I am unable to import the pypi module (https://pypi.org/project/pypi/) into one of my python scripts.

I added the below line to my script to see which paths it's trying to get modules from:

print(sys.path)

Which shows the following:

`'/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/', '/usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages']

I have used pip to force the installation into those specific folders:

sudo pip3 install --upgrade --target=/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/ pypi
sudo pip3 install --upgrade --target=/usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages pypi

In both cases the installation is successful:

Collecting pypi
Installing collected packages: pypi
Successfully installed pypi-2.1

If I go check those folders, the package is there:

ls -lh /usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages | grep pypi
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Apr 25 11:03 pypi-2.1.dist-info
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Apr 25 10:49 pypi-2.1-py3.5.egg-info

If I manually install the package I get something similar:

https://pypi.org/project/pypi/#files
Downloaded & Extracted pypi-2.1.tar.gz
Then ran setup

python3.5 ./setup.py install
running install
running build
running install_egg_info
Writing /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/pypi-2.1.egg-info

Here is my script:

import sys
print(sys.path)
import pypi

And the error I get:

$ python3.5 myscrypt.py
[..., '/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages','/usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages']
import pypi
ImportError: No module named 'pypi'

What am I missing to import pypi?

phd · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-25 12:04:16Z

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There are no importable modules or packages in the pypi package. The package was created to reserve the name so that evil hackers don't publish packages with this name.

What are really trying to install?

answered Apr 25, 2019 at 12:04

phd

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Panda Coder Over a year ago

I want to look for info on python packages: 1) scan .py files for import statements to identify imported modules 2) Retrieve the pypi package info (website/github URLs 3) Repeat those steps on hundreds of data-science related projects to build an inventory of most used packages, website URLs to go check them out etc.. A sort of package research/monitoring tool. As I came across this github.com/pypa/pip/issues/3354 which showed pypi.search({'name': query, 'summary': query}, 'or') so I thought pypi was a package. But I'm open to other solutions if you have

phd Over a year ago

The previous line shows that pypi there is an XML-RPC client that connects to pypi.org.

Panda Coder Over a year ago

So I guess they use some sort of XML API to read the pypi database and fetch info?

Panda Coder Over a year ago

Ended up using their JSON API (warehouse.readthedocs.io/api-reference/json), very easy to consume with 2.python-requests.org/en/master

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