Import "requests" module in python

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#1

I’m having trouble importing the “requests” module in the rhino python environment. It works just fine when I run ironpython directly - ipy.exe with frames enabled - but when I try “import requests” in a python script it tells me “No module named requests”. I have frames enabled in my rhino python editor, and I have both C:\Program Files (x86)\IronPython 2.7\Lib and C:\Program Files\Rhinoceros 5.0 (64-bit)\Plug-ins\IronPython\Lib in my module search paths. I even have identical \site-packages\requests-2.4.3-py2.7.egg directories in both of those places.

(on a side note, despite having both in the module search paths, I sometimes seem to be unable to load modules that are in the ironpython directory - only those that I’ve copied into the rhino plugin’s “Lib” folder.)

@stevebaer any thoughts?

Enable Frames in Mac Rhino
#2

Rhino ships with an older version of IronPython which may be what is causing the problem. Have you tried this with the WIP which uses a newer version of IronPython?

#3

just tried it in the WIP - no luck.

#4

I logged this as a bug in our system since I’m not sure what is causing the problem and am stuck in the middle of a large project at the moment.
http://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-29266

#5

Hi.

From what you wrote the last directory , “site-packages”, doesn’t seem to be on your path. I got it to load by adding it to the search paths or by importing it this way:

requests = __import__ ("site-packages/requests")

I used the _import_ function because of the dash in the directory name.

I got it to load but this package seems to have native dependencies that won’t run in IronPython. I couldn’t get this to work:

r = requests.get('http://www.google.com')
print r.status_code

Am I missing something?

#6

I guess I am missing something …

I just installed the new IP 2.7.5 then ran

ipy -X:Frames -m ensurepip
ipy -X:Frames -m pip install requests

And I could get it to work from the command line.

#7

I was just trying to run a found script that uses requests and ran into this issue, I can’t find “ipy.exe” to actually install pip and requests, how do I do that? …Okay so that’s if I install IronPython separately…but can I then access that from Rhino?

Thanks,
Jim

#8

So I installed Ironpython 2.7.5, and the WIP, installed requests, added the search paths in the Rhino Python editor, and…“no module named requests.”

#9

Hi Jim,

Is the “request” directory part of your path? The last directory on the path should be the one that contains the “request” directory.

At the command line I can get a “requests.get(”…") to work but in Rhino even though I can is import the module I can’t do a “get”. I get an “unknown encoding: idna” msg which led me to find this issue

#10

I got same error in Requests 2.1
At last , I understand I work for nothing … I try to revise it as this post : http://www.lancard.com/blog/2013/03/08/ironpythonでもrequestsが使いたい/

But it is not ok too . so I have to give up !

#11

Hi there

Sorry for digging this old thing up, I might be having a similar issue.
I’m trying to load a Airtable API wrapper module in python, but get this error code:
cannot import idna from encodings:
image

Is this an incompatibility with IronPython, or is this something else?

#12

hi @rheinason,

I had similar issues when trying to load an airtable wrapper in csharp but managed to get it to work.

The GH plugin is here:

and the source code if you’re interested is here:

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#13

Hi @Nick_Cassab

Super cool, I’ll check this out. Thanks !