[FIXED] ImportError No module named 'plotlytools' when importing Cufflinks

Issue

My system environment: Windows 8.1, WinPython 3.4.3.1, pandas 0.16, plotly 1.6.14, cufflinks 0.2

I have no idea what's causing the issue. I'm attempting to use the tutorial outlined here cufflinks nbviewer tutorial

However when I try to import the cufflinks module I get the following output.

That doesn't make sense to me because as far as I can tell the files are all set up correctly within the folder and I don't see any obvious errors within the files themselves. See below image:

I also looked at the __init__.py file and didn't see anything unusual.

And lastly I looked at the actual plotlytools.py file to see if anything looked odd and nothing jumped out at me.

Any help figuring this one out would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

UPDATE: If this helps here is a print out of my sys.path

Solution

I was able to import the module after implementing the following workarounds:

1. In the utils.py file I added () to all the print statements, example: print 'string' became print('string').
2. I copied then deleted the utils.py and colors.py files and pasted the contents into the plotlytools.py file.
3. I updated all the import references in the remaining files.
4. to use the pandastools functionality, specifically the df.iplot method, it was also necessary to update the encoding and decoding methods for the colors.py file from str.encode('hex') and str.decode('hex') to import codecs; codecs.encode(str,'hex'); codecs.decode(str,'hex')
5. I also updated the generator methods from gen_object.next() to next(gen_object)

At this point all the functionality of the module seems to be restored.

Answered By - BCR