Unable to import protobuf (compiled and installed) along with google-cloud services

[dilipvamsi]

Version: v3.6.1 Language: Python OS: Linux I have installed the python protobuf (c++ implementation) by compiling it from source. This is the folder it got installed into.

$ tree ./venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/protobuf-3.6.1-py3.6-linux-x86_64.egg/ -L 1
./venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/protobuf-3.6.1-py3.6-linux-x86_64.egg/
├── EGG-INFO
└── google

I was able to import google.protobuf

Python 3.6.7 (default, Oct 22 2018, 11:32:17) 
[GCC 8.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import google.protobuf
>>>

Then I have installed google-cloud-storage These are the following contents in google site-packages folder.

$ tree ./venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/google -L 1
./venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/google
├── api
├── api_core
├── auth
├── cloud
├── logging
├── longrunning
├── oauth2
├── resumable_media
├── rpc
└── type

Unable to import google.protobuf as the python interpreter is unable to find protobuf in ./venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/google

Python 3.6.7 (default, Oct 22 2018, 11:32:17) 
[GCC 8.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import google.protobuf
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'google.protobuf'
>>> 

What I understood was as the sys.path is favoring ./venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/google over ./venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/protobuf-3.6.1-py3.6-linux-x86_64.egg/

Python 3.6.7 (default, Oct 22 2018, 11:32:17) 
[GCC 8.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python36.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.6', '/usr/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload', '/home/dilipvamsi/test/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages', '/home/dilipvamsi/test/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/six-1.12.0-py3.6.egg', '/home/dilipvamsi/test/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/protobuf-3.6.1-py3.6-linux-x86_64.egg']

So, I have created a symbolic link from google folder to installed protobuf

$ cd ./venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/google
$ ln -s ../protobuf-3.6.1-py3.6-linux-x86_64.egg/google/protobuf/ protobuf

Then I was able to import it. Is there any way to get it working just by installing.

Thanks, Dilip Vamsi.

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