Using gspread in GAE

Question

I am unable to get a Python package, gspread , to work in GAE.

My project is in D:\\Documents\\Google Cloud\\myapp . I installed gspread using:

c:\python27\python.exe setup.py install --home="D:\Documents\Google Cloud\myapp"

All the files appear to be installed in D:\\Documents\\Google Cloud\\myapp\\lib\\python without offering me a choice. In fact, I have to add this path to PYTHONPATH in order for setup.py to run properly.

If I then run Python, I can import gspread in the interpreter.

However, in myapp, I can't import ( ImportError: No module named gspread ) even when I added that long path to sys.path . My sys.path at run-time contains, among other values,:

'D:\\Documents\\Google Cloud\\myapp\\lib\\python'
'D:\\Documents\\Google Cloud\\myapp'
'D:\\Documents\\Google Cloud\\myapp\\lib'

What is needed to get this third party module to work?

Answer 1

I got it to work by adding the following, path of a file and not a folder, to sys.path :

D:\Documents\Google Cloud\Drive-1185\lib\python\gspread-0.2.5-py2.7.egg

A relative path may be used as the working directory is the app directory. To deploy to Google's servers, obviously only a relative path can be used, and not only that, backward slashes must be replaced with forward slashes.