Module importing in python 2.7

Question

this is my first post and I've been working with python for about a month now.

Anyway I've been trying to import downloaded modules into python 2.7, such as django and mechanize, and I keep getting the same error telling me there is no such module. I downloaded both with pip and from I understand should be in the correct directories. A while ago I decided to simply copy and paste the django folder into the same folder I was saving my programs into, and that took care of the issue. That seems a bit messy though, having to save all of my modules into various folders. So I looked around stackoverflow (and elseware) and pasted that same folder into a PYTHONPATH directory and that didn't solve the problem either. I apologize for the long question but I've been at it for a while now and tried a few different fixes. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, thank you very much.

On a side note, default modules work fine, such as: math and os. Side note, I'm running kubuntu 14.04.

Thanks again.

Answer 1

The standard Python solution to installing packages is to install pip (package manager) and virtualenv , then make a virtualenv for each project and install your packages in the virtualenv. The documentation for those projects is quite good and should be able to get you started.