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Re: ModuleNotFoundError for youtube_dl

From jkn <jkn+es@nicorp.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: ModuleNotFoundError for youtube_dl
Date 2024-12-10 22:35 +0000
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On 10/12/2024 01:41, Tim Johnson wrote:
> 
> On 12/9/24 14:59, Tim Johnson wrote:
>>
>> Recently did a refresh of ubuntu 24.04
>>
>> With no code changes am now getting a *ModuleNotFoundError *for 
>> youtube_dl
>>
>> Relevant code is
>>
>> import sys
>> sys.path.append("/home/tim/.local/share/pipx/venvs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.12/site-packages/youtube_dl")
>>
>> import youtube_dl '
>>
>> Navigating to 
>> /home/tim/.local/share/pipx/venvs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.12/site-packages/youtube_dl,
>>
>> I see the following
>>
>> tim@beelink:~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/youtube-dl/lib/python3.12/site-packages/youtube_dl$ ls
>> aes.py    compat.py   extractor    jsinterp.py  options.py 
>> __pycache__  swfinterp.py  utils.py    YoutubeDL.py
>> cache.py  downloader  __init__.py  __main__.py  postprocessor 
>> socks.py     update.py     version.
>>
> I should not have appended 'youtube_dl' to the path. I used the content 
> from 
> /home/tim/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pipx_shared.pth
> 
> ("/home/tim/.local/share/pipx/shared/lib/python3.12/site-packages") and 
> added that to /usr/lib/python3.12/sitecustomize.py as appended to sys.path
> 
> and it appears to be solved.

FWIW I think youtube_dl has largely been supplanted by the (maintained) 
'yt-dlp' these days

     J^n

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Re: ModuleNotFoundError for youtube_dl Tim Johnson <thjmmj15@gmail.com> - 2024-12-09 16:41 -0900
  Re: ModuleNotFoundError for youtube_dl jkn <jkn+es@nicorp.co.uk> - 2024-12-10 22:35 +0000

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