Error while importing telepot

Question

I'm trying to build my own bot but I've some troubles when I try to import the telepot package. I installed telepot with the command to a virtualenv :

pip install telepot

and I've no problems when I do

python
import telepot

But to use the GPIO it's necessary the be the super user, so

sudo python
import telepot

but the answer is

ImportError: No module named telepot

What is wrong?

Answer 1

Since you are using virtualenv and want to execute Python with sudo , try this:

1. activate your virtualenv
2. pip install telepot
3. get the path to virtualenv's Python with which python
4. deactivate virtualenv
5. execute sudo <path_to_python_from_step3>
6. import telepot should work now