Can't import noise from other directories about noise

[brycepg]

What's happening is that Python prefers to look for modules in relative paths before absolute paths. Since you can import noise from the repo directory, that means it's probably already in your python path(an absolute path).

Say this repository lives in foo/noise/ and now you are in foo/ if you go up a directory and try to run import noise. Python will see that the local directory noise/ as a module because it has an __init__.py file and try to import the directory instead of the module installed in your python path. Since this module requires the _noise and _simplex C extensions to be compiled, this wont work.

I'd recommend removing or renaming this repo directory from your project and use pip to install noise if you haven't already. (pip install noise)

If you really want to install from source and not install into your system, then, in the noise/ repository, run python setup.py build to build locally and grab dist/lib*/noise/ and put that directory into your project directory.

Alternatively use python setup.py install in the noise/ repository to install from source into your Python path.

[Shaderboy]

Hey thanks for the detailed response. I originally installed it using python setup.py install as you say. Moving it out of the working directory did in fact resolve the issue. Thanks! Quick follow up question though: I also have other modules like caffe, and protobuf in that directory. Why can I import those with no issue?

Edit: For some reason this seems to have broken caffe now... When running my original script (even without importing noise) it gives me this:

Traceback
(most recent call last):
File "live.py", line 13, in
import caffe
File "/home/chris/code/deepDream/caffe/python/caffe/init.py", line 1, in
from .pycaffe import Net, SGDSolver, NesterovSolver, AdaGradSolver, RMSPropSolver, AdaDeltaSolver, AdamSolver
File "/home/chris/code/deepDream/caffe/python/caffe/pycaffe.py", line 13, in
from ._caffe import Net, SGDSolver, NesterovSolver, AdaGradSolver,
ImportError: libcudart.so.7.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Why would just moving the noise directory fuck with caffe?

Edit Edit: Ugh, nevermind. Several different, independent things are throwing the same error about missing .so files... It looks like this issue is distinct from anything happening with the noise lib.

[brycepg]

You're welcome.

__init__.py depends on _perlin and _simplex which are shared object files compiled from Python C extensions. If you did python setup.py build and then copied dist/lib*/*.so (assuming you're on linux) into the main noise repo directory, then what you are doing would work.