Implementing pdfkit and wkhtmltopdf on windows fails

[robert brook]

On Friday, October 31, 2014 1:02:44 PM UTC-4, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 10/31/2014 12:46 PM, robert brook wrote:
> > I am able to install both of these packages on my mac at home and it works well.
> >
> > I am trying to install on windows 7 at work and it fails.  PDFKit is trying to find the wkh package and it cannot. I have entered the full path to the exe for the environment variables and the error below is spit out.
> >
> > If I explicitly cd into the directory that has the executable the script works fine
> >
> >>>> import os
> >>>> path='C:\\wkhtmltopdf\\bin\\'
> >>>> os.chdir(path)
> >>>> pdfkit.from_string('Hello!', 'out.pdf')
> > Loading pages (1/6)     #this works after cd into the exe directory
> >
> >
> > Where can I specify the path to the executable?
> >
> > *************
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> >    File "C:\Applications\python_33_32_bit\lib\site-packages\pdfkit-0.4.1-py3.3.eg
> > g\pdfkit\api.py", line 66, in from_string
> >    File "C:\Applications\python_33_32_bit\lib\site-packages\pdfkit-0.4.1-py3.3.eg
> > g\pdfkit\pdfkit.py", line 39, in __init__
> >    File "C:\Applications\python_33_32_bit\lib\site-packages\pdfkit-0.4.1-py3.3.eg
> > g\pdfkit\configuration.py", line 27, in __init__
> > OSError: No wkhtmltopdf executable found: "b''"
> > If this file exists please check that this process can read it. Otherwise please
> >   install wkhtmltopdf - https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit/wiki/Installing
> > -wkhtmltopdf
> >
> > **********************
> >
> 
> I don't know your particular module, but generally, you want modules 
> installed on your sys.path.  Either install it there, or add the 
> directory to sys.path (which is a list)
> 
> I'd suggest doing the latter, then figure whether a reinstall is called 
> for.  It looks like you installed it in the root directory of C:, rather 
> than in the site-packages.
> 
> 
> -- 
> DaveA

I see the problem.  The installation of the package did not drop down the files that the executable is looking for.

Thanks