[GRASS-user] Install package for add-on in /usr/bin/python3

[Robin Kohrs]

Hi Markus,

thank you very much for your answer and the help!
Do you have any idea what I could do to make the fmask-package  
"locatable" for the python-interpreter that grass is using?

I tried the following options, but I guess I just don't know  
sufficiently about how python and grass really work together:

My python-script looks more or less like this:
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#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys

print("SYS PATH")
print(sys.path)
print("")
print("SYS EXECUTABLE")
print(sys.executable)

import grass.script as grass
from rios import fileinfo # that's where it fails
from fmask import fmask

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That's why I tried until now:

- I created an environment with conda and installed python-fmask via  
"conda install -c conda-forge python-fmask". The function  
"fmask_sentinel2Stacked.py" lies in  
"/home/robin/miniconda3/bin/fmask_sentinel2Stacked.py".

- When I open an interactive python-shell and import fmask and rios  
and the type: "fmask.__file__" it gives me  
"/home/robin/miniconda3/envs/fmask/lib/python3.7/site-packages/fmask/__init__.py"

- I then added  
"/home/robin/miniconda3/envs/fmask/lib/python3.7/site-packages/" to  
the variable PYTHONPATH in my .bashrc

- When I now start the interpreter that grass uses from the command  
line by typing "/usr/bin/pyton3" I can import fmask and rios

- However when I run the script with grass it always says that there  
is no package names rios. Moreover the path I added to PYTHONPATH is  
not printed when it executes "sys.path" in my grass script


I'm sorry for this little confusing question. But in case someone has  
any idea how I could make grass find fmask, would be super highly  
appreciated:)

thanks a lot in advance! Cheers
Robin

Citando Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>:

> Hi Robin,
>
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 6:15 PM Robin Kohrs <robin.kohrs at uni-jena.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone:)
>> I'm really sorry for this naive question. I'm kind of starting with
>> GRASS and I just can't find a solution...
>> The issue is, that I would like to try to write a little GRASS Add-on
>> and use the python-fmask package. While this package is only
>> downloadable via conda it always installs into
>> `/home/user/miniconda3/bin/python3`. Even when I did `conda
>> deactivate` prior to this.
>
> I guess that mixing conda packages and "regular" ones is causing troubles.
>
>> When I then have the import statement `import fask` in the
>> grass-script it always throws an error, saying that fmask is not
>> installed. When I print the `sys.executable` in the grass-script it
>> tells me that the interpreter is in `usr/bin/python3`. So I thought
>> that I'd install the fmask-package in a way that this interpreter can
>> find it while executing the script. But I just don't know how. I can
>> add the fmask-path to sys.path, but I don't think this is the
>> solution. Maybe someone has a pointer what I'm not getting.
>
> There is also the environment variable PYTHONPATH which could be set
> in the session.
> But again, mixing might cause problems.
>
> Now I wanted to check
> http://pythonfmask.org/en/latest/#downloads
> but the server is down...
>
>> Hope everyone is good these days:)!
>
> Good luck everyone,
>
> Markus