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How to import a package that use absolute import in python

I'm trying to import volatility3 into my python project/script, so that I don't have to use os.system since volatility3 is already made in python3.
I'm wondering how can I import all the functions/modules of said project ? The functions I'm interested in are located in volatility3/volatility/framework
I tried simply putting:
>>> import volatility3.volatility.framework
But I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/volatility3/volatility/framework/__init__.py", line 12, in <module>
from volatility.framework import constants, interfaces
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'volatility'
My guess is I have to modify sys.path or one of the path variables but this does not seem to work.
Thanks,

The best solution here would be to properly install volatility with pip3, from your already exiting repository folder:
$ pip3 install /home/volatility3
or directly from pipy (not tested):
$ pip3 install volatility3
then you should be able to import the from volatility package directly:
Python 3.6.9 (default, Nov 7 2019, 10:44:02)
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import volatility.framework
>>> volatility.framework
<module 'volatility.framework' from '/home/bruno/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/volatility/framework/__init__.py'>
>>>

"ELF file OS ABI invalid" using psycopg2

I've post a question, but I think the problem is maybe specific. So I create this new post.
When I test in the python's console psycopg2, I've this error :
this-user#xxx-web:~/my-folder$ python
Python 2.7.9 (default, Jun 29 2016, 13:08:31)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys,os
>>> import psycopg2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/home/users/this-user/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py", line 50, in <module>
from psycopg2._psycopg import BINARY, NUMBER, STRING, DATETIME, ROWID
ImportError: /home/users/this-user/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2/_psycopg.so: ELF file OS ABI invalid
>>> quit()
this-user#xxx-web:~/massifs$ ll /home/users/this-user/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2/_psycopg.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 this-user 214K mai 21 2015 /home/users/this-user/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/psycopg2/_psycopg.so*
If I run the python's console in root, it's working !!?? :(
Thanks for help.
F.

Note that your import is from a 'user' install, so if you run it as root, it will import something else (a different copy of the module which happens to work). You may have two installs of the psycopg2 module and the one that is in this-user is not compatible (maybe you copied it directly from another host rather than installing it with pip).
You should probably un-install psycopg2 and re-install it properly with python -m pip uninstall --user psycopg2 and then python -m pip install --user psycopg2, so you get the correct build of the .so file.

salesforce python Beatbox import error

I am trying to log in to salesforce.com's sandbox using a URL, ID and PASS. I want to use SOAP API for that. When I try to import beatbox in python3, it throws an ImportError exception. However, I can confirm that beatbox is installed in python3. So what am I doing wrong? Is there any other way to do it?
Python 3.5.0 (default, Dec 6 2015, 17:23:12)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-16)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import beatbox
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/beatbox-32.1-py3.5.egg/beatbox/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named '_beatbox'
>>>

The beatbox module that you probably installed is this : Beatbox 32.1.
Solution 1 : The above beatbox module only supports python 2.x (tested with python 2.7). So, switch to Python 2.x if that is an option.
You can find the source by original author of beatbox here and it has been updated to support python3.
Solution 2 :
Clone the repo in your local machine using git clone https://github.com/superfell/Beatbox.git
Change to the Beatbox directory
Install the module using python setup.py install

For me the issue was I had both beatbox and beatbox3 installed.
beatbox3 is the version for python3.
Once I uninstalled beatbox it worked fine.

Why is this module not being found when I run the script but is in the interpreter?

I'm trying to import the tkinter module into my script. I have it installed since the interpreter is able to import it with no problems:
C:\Users\Nacht\Dropbox\Scripts>python
Python 3.2.2 (default, Sep 4 2011, 09:51:08) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import tkinter
>>>
Imports fine, no problem. But now when I try to run a script that has the line import tkinter....
C:\Users\Nacht\Dropbox\Scripts>t ls
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Nacht\Dropbox\Scripts\t.py", line 5, in <module>
import tkinter
ImportError: No module named tkinter
where t is the name of the script and ls a command (it is a command-line interface).
How can the interpreter see it but not the script? Thanks.
EDIT:
The sys.path says, for the interpreter:
C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\distribute-0.6.24-py3.2.egg
C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\selenium-2.15.0-py3.2.egg
C:\Windows\system32\python32.zip
C:\Python32\DLLs
C:\Python32\lib
C:\Python32
C:\Python32\lib\site-packages
C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\win32
C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\win32\lib
C:\Python32\lib\site-packages\Pythonwin
and for the script:
C:\Users\Nacht\Dropbox\Scripts
C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\distribute-0.6.24-py2.7.egg
C:\Windows\system32\python27.zip
C:\Python27\DLLs
C:\Python27\lib
C:\Python27\lib\plat-win
C:\Python27\lib\lib-tk
C:\Python27
C:\Python27\lib\site-packages
C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.7.egg-info

The script appears to be running with Python 2.7 but when you run the interpreter directly, it is using Python 3.2. As mentioned by #DSM, the name of Tkinter was different (perhaps there are other differences?).

May be there is a problem with path. It can't find the tkinter module. Setting up correct path try to import again.

PyQt4 can't import Qsci

I'm installing PyQt4 on an old Linux system (CentOS 4.4) that can't be upgraded for hardware compatibility reasons. I've got Python 2.6, QT4 and SIP installed, and the installation of PyQt4 didn't give me any errors.
When I run Python, this happens:
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, May 11 2011, 14:18:37)
[GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import PyQt4
>>> import PyQt4.Qsci
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named Qsci
I looked around, and found /usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/uic/widget-plugins/qscintilla.py, which is almost empty of non-comment stuff:
pluginType = MODULE
def moduleInformation():
return "PyQt4.Qsci", ("QsciScintilla", )
Any ideas?

You need to install qscintilla separately. If PyQt is already installed, then you should just have to install the qscintilla python bindings. Hopefully this fixes your issue!