Unable to import module named xlrd

[JordanCClark]

@bmeyers

That seemed to work for the console and the script I was running. I got my original info from here…

https://support.inductiveautomation.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/98/2/importing-and-using-3rd-party-python-libraries-in-ignition

Do I need to put the folder in both locations or just the site-packages one you mentioned?

Things got changed up a bit for v8. The site-packages folder more of a python standard.

Procedure for installing python libraries from source

There’s actually a procedure you can use to use pip from within Jython to install packages, then link Ignition’s Jython lib to an-off-the-shelf Jython lib and use that…however, the article specifically calls out the twilio module as not working, because one of its dependencies, cffi, has C dependencies (IE, won’t work in Jython). For posterity, here’s the procedure, copied verbatim from an internal document: 0) On the server, install Java 8 if you haven’t already. Download the full Jython 2.…