Error message when trying to import installed python package

Question

I have python2.7 and python 2.6 installed in my VM and I pip install some libraries such as:

sudo pip install gsconfig

The installation is successful and I can see that the package is installed by:

pip list

My default system's python is 2.6. In the terminal I enter python and try to import the library as:

python
import gsconfig

And then I get an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named gsconfig

I also tried with python2.7 as:

python2.7
import gsconfig

I get the same error message. I can not understand why this is happening as I don't have with other packages this issue (e.g. simplejson).

Can it be that the location of the package is different? When I try this:

which gsconfig

I get:

/usr/bin/which: no gsconfig in (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)

EDITED Also when I go to the site-packages folder of python2.7 I can see that the package is installed.

willy · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-03 17:36:10Z

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It looks like the package name is not gsconfig, but is something else.

Looking at the documentation, I think it's geoserver.

answered Jun 3, 2016 at 17:36

willy

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