[Distutils] Problem importing pylirc egg

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 05:46 PM 4/24/2006 +0200, Philippe Normand wrote:
>Hi,
>
>i've easy_installed pylirc from sourceforge as an Egg. It's correctly
>compiled/installed on my system. But i can't import it, though it's
>found by pkg_resources:
>
> >>> import pylirc
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>ImportError: No module named pylirc
> >>> import pkg_resources
> >>> pkg_resources.require('pylirc')
>[pylirc 0.0.5
>(/home/phil/lib/python2.4/pylirc-0.0.5-py2.4-linux-i686.egg)]
>
>What am i supposed to do with that Requirement object so as to get
>pylirc module in my namespace ?

Try "import pylircmodule" - it looks like this may be a bug in building 
compressed eggs; if an extension module in a zipfile ends with 'module', 
the bdist_egg command probably isn't stripping the word 'module' from the 
loader name.

If that works, try reinstalling the egg using -Z (or --always-unzip), and 
see if you can just use "import pylirc".  In that case, it is indeed a bug 
in bdist_egg.