[Scons-users] Reproducible "No module named SCons.Script" on multiple Windows installations

[Bill Deegan]

Does it work if you use pip install?

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 5:13 AM, Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> With Python 2.7.14 installed from http://www.python.org using the AMD64
> MSI package on Windows 8, in my %PATH% and working when I type "python" by
> itself, if I download SCons 3.0.0 or 3.0.1 and install them with "python
> setup.py install --prefix=C:\some\path\scons", then try to run either
> C:\some\path\scons\SCons\Scripts\scons.bat or "python
> C:\some\path\scons\SCons\Scripts\scons.py", it dies with this exception:
>
> SCons import failed. Unable to find engine files in:
>   C:\some\path\scons\Scripts\..\engine
>   C:\some\path\scons\Scripts\scons-local-3.0.1
>   C:\some\path\scons\Scripts\scons-local
>   C:\Python27\scons-3.0.1
>   C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\scons-3.0.1
>   C:\Python27\scons
>   C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\scons
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\some\path\scons\Scripts\scons.py", line 192, in <module>
>     import SCons.Script
> ImportError: No module named SCons.Script
>
>
> I get exactly the same problem on 32 bit Windows XP using the Python
> bundled with Apache OpenOffice, so it doesn't seem like an isolated problem.
>
> Does --prefix not work when installing on Windows? Is there something I am
> missing?
>
> It might be worth noting that the real path to the SCons\Script directory
> is C:\some\path\scons\Lib\site-packages\scons-3.0.1, which doesn't appear
> in that list of paths printed out.
>
> Thank you
> Damjan
>
>
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