ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'twitter'

[tomtom1337]

Hi and thanks for the great work!

I've got an issue with loading the local twitter module from the modules folder:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "poastal.py", line 7, in <module>
    from twitter import twitter_email
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'twitter'

Workaround for me was to add the modules folder to the import command in the poastal.py

#import modules
from modules.twitter import twitter_email

And now it's working :)

[chanoir2303]

Recommendation is to install your dependencies into a virtual environment

[tomtom1337]

Recommendation is to install your dependencies into a virtual environment

This does not solve my issue... still No module named 'twitter'.
The only solution is to add modules. to load the local modules correctly

[chanoir2303]

Can you reproduce how did you install the project requirements for us?

[jakecreps]

Did you change any folder names?

sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('./modules'))

This should import the location of all of the modules into the script.

[tomtom1337]

I've tried it on a fresh installation of Linux Mint 21.1 in Virtual Box:

v@v-VirtualBox:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Linuxmint
Description:	Linux Mint 21.1
Release:	21.1
Codename:	vera
v@v-VirtualBox:~$ python3 --version
Python 3.10.6

Installation:

@v-VirtualBox:~$ git clone https://github.com/jakecreps/poastal
Klone nach 'poastal' …
remote: Enumerating objects: 178, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (77/77), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (76/76), done.
remote: Total 178 (delta 29), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 101
Empfange Objekte: 100% (178/178), 150.11 KiB | 3.00 MiB/s, fertig.
Löse Unterschiede auf: 100% (65/65), fertig.
v@v-VirtualBox:~$ cd poastal/
v@v-VirtualBox:~/poastal$ pip install -r requirements.txt
[ ... ]
Successfully installed Jinja2-3.1.2 MarkupSafe-2.1.2 Werkzeug-2.2.3 flask-2.2.3 flask_cors-3.0.10 itsdangerous-2.1.2
v@v-VirtualBox:~/poastal$ python3 backend/poastal.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/v/poastal/backend/poastal.py", line 7, in <module>
    from twitter import twitter_email
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'twitter'

I've added print(sys.path) to check if the sys.path.append is working:

['/home/v/poastal/backend', '/usr/lib/python310.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.10', '/usr/lib/python3.10/lib-dynload', '/home/v/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages', '/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python3.10/dist-packages', '/home/v/poastal/modules']

Only solution is to load all the local modules with
from modules.xxx import xxx

[turnkit]

weird. Was trying to troubleshoot why I never get a prompt to enter an email and I did notice this...

If I run the poastal.py from the poastal directory like this then I get this module error. But if I cd into backend and then run it it seems to start fine (but I can never find a place to enter the email as the web page just shows "no email provided."

$ python ./backend/poastal.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/user/poastal/./backend/poastal.py", line 7, in
from twitter import twitter_email
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'twitter'

vs

$ python ./poastal.py

• Serving Flask app 'poastal'
• Debug mode: on
  WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment. Use a production WSGI server instead.
• Running on http://127.0.0.1:8080
  Press CTRL+C to quit
• Restarting with watchdog (inotify)
• Debugger is active!
• Debugger PIN: 214-718-896
  127.0.0.1 - - [28/Apr/2023 10:10:48] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
  127.0.0.1 - - [28/Apr/2023 10:11:40] "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 404 -

[tomtom1337]

So the problem is that if you don't run poastal.py from the backend folder itself it throws the ModuleNotFoundError because it looks for .../poastal/modules instead of .../poastal/backend/modules

So you may close this issue or you can add my workaround modules.xxxx to run poastal.py from anywhere 😄