[QGIS-Developer] Module not recognized in Python

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 2/6/19 12:04 PM, Paul Riedel wrote:
> Dear Devs.
> 
> Kind of a help request here. Usually I would ask in a Discord or some
> other chat program but there doesn't seem to be one?
> I am trying to write a plugin to import Open Mining Format data into
> QGIS(and maybe export it??)
> Anyway, I went through the process of setting up a new plugin through
> the Plugin Creator Plugin, went through the hassle of doing the
> resources on Windows by doing
> https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/273552/pyrcc5-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command
> 
> since OS4Geo-shell doesn't recognize the bin and has no access to the
> .exe for some reason.
> 
> So the plugin initializes and shows in QGIS.
> Now, I copied the OMF library files into my plugin folder so now it
> contains
> python\plugins\omf_loader\omf\
> However, upon trying to import the library by calling "import omf" or
> "from . import omf" in the "run" Method, I get the error that the
> library can not be found.
> This is weird since I had a look at other plugins and they also use
> local imports for helper functions...
> 
> 
> Can you provide any help?

Hi Paul,

besides the mailinglist there is a irc channel and a gitter channel
(with a bridge to the irc and vv):
https://gitter.im/qgis/QGIS

But indeed this should work, something like

from .omf.base import UidModel

maybe?
Are you sure you have the python files unzipped there?


Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde