Unable to import if installed as local package

[sunnyxxchen]

I'm trying to use a local installation of FLORIS to modify some of the source code. I cloned the repo and installed with pip install -e floris as per the installation instructions. However, I'm now running into some kind of issue with the PATH. If I start Python and import outside of the floris directory (where I cloned the repo), then the package doesn't import any of the functions correctly. Depending on the directory, running help(floris) will produce something like this:

NAME
    floris

PACKAGE CONTENTS


FILE
    (built-in)

I had previously installed using pip install floris, if that makes a difference. Thank you for your help!

[misi9170]

Hi @sunnyxxchen ,

This comment might help: #979 (comment) . In particular, if you run pip show floris, does it print the path to where you cloned the repository, or does it print something else? You may need to start fresh with a new conda environment, or you could try pip uninstall floris before retrying the local install pip install -e floris.

[sunnyxxchen]

Thanks. pip show floris gives both a "location" and "editable project location". The location shows my Conda environment package directory, while the editable project location gives the cloned repo. If there is no easy fix, I may go ahead and retry with a new environment.

[misi9170]

Hmm. One other thing to try is to just run pip list and then see what shows up next to the FLORIS entry. When I do that with a locally installed version, I see something like this:

FLORIS                        4.1.1         /Users/mymachine/floris

whereas if it is pip install from PyPI, the path disappears and I see:

FLORIS          4.1.1

that is, no location is shown.

One way or another, it seems as though conda has gotten mixed up about the location of the FLORIS package, and I think a fresh environment with floris locally installed would likely fix it.

[sunnyxxchen]

It turns out that I had originally installed FLORIS with conda instead of pip. Trying conda remove floris did not fix the problem, so I went ahead and started with a new environment. Thank you for your help!