No Module Found for pyminizip

[css459]

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Hello Pythonista,

I am trying to encrypt a file using Pythonista and I see that pyminizip is included as part of the app. However, when I try to import this module as import pyminizip I receive a Module not found error. It does however show up in the tab completion within the editor, but not the REPL. Is this related to Pythonista, or can I fix it on my end? Thanks for your help.

— Cole

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/3BE409B0-66B3-41A2-9200-B11FC9CCF68C/Pythonista3/Documents/test.py", line 1, in <module>
    import pyminizip
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pyminizip'

[cclauss]

Look up https://pypi.org/project/pyminizip/ on PyPI (which is where pip will get the package from) and follow the Homepage link to https://github.com/smihica/pyminizip and look at the Languages section. This package is written in C, Assembly, C++, and C# so it is not pure Python and can not be pip installed on Pythonista.

[holvi-mikael]

As the issue states, this is not about installing pyminizip, but the fact that you cannot import it even if it shows up in the editor as a completion suggestion.

As a workaround, there is the zipfile package that can be used to create and process ZIP files.

[cclauss]

As the reply states, the pip install of pyminzip failed.

[css459]

Right that’s fine, but if that is the case, you should remove it from your included packages list. I wasn’t attempting to install it since it states there that it is included. Thank you for including an explanation though!