No module named _graphviz

python import graphviz importerror pygraphviz
ryan pei picture ryan pei · Jan 26, 2014 · Viewed 9.5k times · Source

I installed graphviz and pygraphviz, when I open a cmd and type

python
import _graphviz

_graphviz can be imported, but when I run a C++ program which will invoke a .py file, there is a line in this .py file which is

import pygraphviz as pgv

Then it will not be able to import _graphviz, it shows the following info:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\project\graph\analysis\x64\Debug\gengraph.py", line 1, in <module>
    import pygraphviz as pgv
  File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygraphviz\__init__.py", lin
e 54, in <module>
    from agraph import AGraph, Node, Edge, Attribute, ItemAttribute
  File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygraphviz\agraph.py", line
20, in <module>
    import graphviz as gv
  File "C:\Program Files\Python27\lib\site-packages\pygraphviz\graphviz.py", lin
e 7, in <module>
    import _graphviz
ImportError: No module named _graphviz

Can you help me, any advice is welcome, thank you!

Answer

tartaruga_casco_mole picture tartaruga_casco_mole · Jun 28, 2015

What system are you using? I spent a good 4 hours trying to figure it out on Windows but ended up migrating my project to Ubuntu. From what I've learned, it's caused by the program not finding the pygraphviz file. It searches in this sequence on Windows: 1,register; 2,PATH; 3,folders. Some methods availables:

Find the block in setup.py for register and skip it.

Rename folder of pygraphviz installation(remove blanks) and move it to a path without blanks

In Ubuntu, you could simply "sudo easy-install pygraphviz" which worked for me.

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