Trouble installing xmpppy python library and recognizing modules

Question

My overall project involves me attempting to use python 3.4 to update my Cisco Jabber status with my the current song I'm playing in Spotify. This is on win 7 for my work laptop.

I was first attempting to get the feel for a good python library that will allow me to change my Jabber status, and I read http://xmpppy.sourceforge.net/ here that xmpppy might be what I'm looking for. Pip wasn't recognizing xmpppy, so I downloaded the library from that website and used python.exe setup.py install in the unzipped folder (from the download) to install. I felt the install went successfully.

However, attempting to import xmpp (the folder that was installed in site-packages was called just xmpp), leaves this error:

 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#11>", line 1, in <module>
    import xmpp
  File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\xmpppy-0.5.0rc1-py3.4.egg\xmpp\__init__.py", line 29, in <module>
import simplexml,protocol,debug,auth,transports,roster,dispatcher,features,browser,filetransfer,commands
ImportError: No module named 'debug'

In the xmpp folder, I can see simplexml.py, protocol.py, debug.py, etc, but the shell is not loading them with the import.

Is there something more I should be using in my import statement to ensure the modules are loaded? Do I perhaps have them located in the wrong place?

And a bonus question, is there a better library for the job?

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

Have you tried from xmpp import debug ? Or you could import <module>; print <module>.__file__ to see if the library is in the right python version not in python2.7?

Since only import debug means you have a library called debug, but seems your problem is trying to import debug from xmpp module.

In addition, to the question for a better library

it depends on your requirement of your project, there are other library like Wokkel, twisted, tornado, Sleekxmpp might able to do the work. However, you might need to spend more time to understand their architecture, xmpppy could gives you a simple implementation without spend too much time on understanding their structure.

Hope it helps.