Good morning, I am trying to add a 3rd party module to Ignition called xlrd. However, when I go to run my script the module is not found. This link here suggests changing the module location: [image] ImportError: No module named abc Ignition Greetings I created a librar…

you need a site-packages folder. C:\Program Files\Inductive Automation\Ignition\user-lib\pylib\site-packages [Annotation 2020-07-29 152310]

What version of xlrd did you download? Also what version of Ignition are you using?

[image] Copying an Excel file to a table's dataset Ignition xlrd works with Jython 2.7. Unzip this into the user-lib/pylib/site-packages folder. xlrd.zip (283.0 KB) Documentation You may also have to restart your designer to get a local copy. I don't qu…

Bear in mind that I was only able to get it to work properly in v8. I never had any success in 7.9.

Whoops!Just sunk in what your issue is. Where are you trying to run the script from? And where did you install xlrd?

Hello, I installed the folder you attached here: C:\Program Files\Inductive Automation\Ignition\user-lib\pylib I then went to my script console and typed in “import xlrd” Error message in script console: ImportError: No module named xlrd If I can get that to work I’ll try the script again.

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 th…

The site-packages should be all you need.

[image] 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…

Unable to import module named xlrd

Ignition

JordanCClark July 29, 2020, 6:28pm 3

You may also have to restart your designer to get a local copy. I don't quite remember.