Using willie on Windows

[Kinematics]

After getting past installation issue #811, and unicode issue #821, I've run into a brick wall on getting willie to run on Windows due to an import bug of some sort. It may possibly be a configuration issue on my part, but after spending all day on this, I'm just submitting it here.

The error is on line 15 of the willie.py script:

from willie.tools import stderr

Completely trivial, and expected to work. If I go into the python command environment and enter that line, it works as expected.

However if I run willie from the command prompt, I instead get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2218, in _find_and_load_unlocked
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '__path__'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python34\Scripts\willie.py", line 15, in <module>
    from willie.tools import stderr
  File "C:\Python34\Scripts\willie.py", line 15, in <module>
    from willie.tools import stderr
ImportError: No module named 'willie.tools'; 'willie' is not a package

I don't understand the whole package/module environment of python well enough to really understand why it's failing, but for whatever reason, the __path__ variable is never set, leading to the above failure.

The only thing I've been able to find is that __path__ is supposed to be getting set automatically. If I do an import in the python environment, I can examine __path__ and __file__, and they are both set correctly. I just don't understand why it won't work under normal usage.

Any help is appreciated.

[embolalia]

How did you install Willie? I don't know why __path__ would not be set, either. I know there are some weird things in Willie (which are fixed for 6.0) that make importing it a bit fragile, but I'm not sure why it would break on Windows.

[Kinematics]

I downloaded the .tar.gz, unpacked it and edited the SOURCES.txt file to fix the bug in issue #811 (deleting the /tmp entry on line 5), re-packed it, and used pip install on the .tar.gz.

[Kinematics]

Based on an answer provided on StackOverflow, I'm now able to run willie. Just changed the file in scripts from willie.py to run-willie.py to keep it from failing due to recursion.

[embolalia]

We're using a setuptools entry point now when you install from pip, so this should no longer be an issue.