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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hello Richard, thank you for the response. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">I don’t have that path in my QGIS install, these are the only folders in the ‘share’ directory for QGIS3.2:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">What is strange is that I tried importing qgis.core again today just for fun, and I got a different error message:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Im guessing this means I need to be running my python program in a python 3.6 shell instead of a python 3.7 shell? But before I uninstall 3.7 and install 3.6 I would like<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">To see what you make of this error. There isn’t much help online with this ImportError regarding QGIS.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">-Ryan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Richard Duivenvoorde [mailto:rdmailings@duif.net] <br>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 4:40 AM<br>
To: Ryan Ruggiero; qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org<br>
Subject: Re: [QGIS-Developer] Issues with Importing qgis</p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">On 10/16/2018 04:18 PM, Ryan Ruggiero wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> I am seeking help regarding importing ‘qgis.core’ into a standalone<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> python script, python executable in cmd, or in a OSGeo4W shell cmd<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> executable. I have python 3.7 installed on my machine along with<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> OSGeo4W64, QGIS3.2. The current error message I am getting:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">> Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated. My goal with this<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> is to use qgis geoprocessing tools in the same manner I am able to use<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> the arcpy module to geocode. Most of the solutions online suggested<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> adding to the PATH and PYTHONPATH user environmental variables, one of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> them being I have tried adding the location of the ‘qgis._core.dll’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> file, and I still get the same error.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hi Ryan,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">It is not the dll's that your are missing, but the actual QGIS python stuff.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">In your PYTHONPATH you have to point to the in my install avaialbe dir:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><YOURINSTALLATION>/share/qgis/python/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">THERE you find the python dirs/modules:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">console plugins pyplugin_installer qgis qsci_apis<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">It should be revealed to you also when you do the following in your<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">python console:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">import sys; print(sys.path)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hope this helps,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Richard Duivenvoorde<o:p></o:p></p>
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