Azure WebJob in Python: How to access azure python package?

Question

I have a simple Azure WebJob written in Python that utilizes the azure python package (which is located in a venv within my solution). The job executes as expected on my local machine, but when I deploy it to the Azure WebJob instance, I get the following error:

ImportError: No module named azure.storage.table

The actual .py is as follows:

from azure.storage.table import TableService

# get table service
table_service = TableService(account_name='myacct', account_key='mykey')

# delete table
table_service.delete_table('MyTable')

How can I access the azure package from the WebJob instance?

Gary Liu · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-04 03:14:27Z

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By default, if you leverage venv in your python application on Azure Web apps, after you deploying your web app to Azure, the venv folder will locate in D:\home\site\wwwroot\env\. And also the python libraries will lie at D:\home\site\wwwroot\env\Lib\site-packages. You can install the python libs in your web app and leverage this absolute address in your python web job scripts, to load the libs in your python web application.

Please try the following test script in WebJobs:

import sys
sitepackage = "D:\home\site\wwwroot\env\Lib\site-packages"
sys.path.append(sitepackage)

try:
    from azure.storage.table import TableService
    print "successfully load lib"
except ImportError, e:
    print "cannot load lib"

answered Aug 4, 2016 at 3:14

Gary Liu

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JTW Over a year ago

The underlying web app is an ASP.NET WebApi. I'm assuming that your answer is only applicable to Python based web apps in Azure.

Gary Liu Over a year ago

The general idea is the same even if you only use python env in webjob. You can generate a python env with your libs (similar to azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/…), and package the env with your python webjob script, modify the sitepackage to the relative path as env\Lib\site-packages, deply to Azure WebJobs together.

Laurent Mazuel · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-03 16:57:21Z

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The only solution I found currently is to push yourself the packages. This might help you:

http://nicholasjackson.github.io/azure/python/python-packages-and-azure-webjobs/

answered Aug 3, 2016 at 16:57

Laurent Mazuel

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Vitalik Over a year ago

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