Hi

I am porting an extension to macOS (Catalina) and running Inkscape 1.1.1. On ubuntu the extension works from either the UI or the CLI. I set PYTHONPATH to /usr/share/inkscape/extensions. On macOS I tried the same trick.

export PYTHONPATH='/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/inkscape/extensions/'

which causes inkex to be imported, but then fail with lxml Module not found errors. The module exists in site-packages so I am puzzled why inkex does not see it.

Any idea?

Gavin

Hello, after a bit more digging I got this to work as follows. Firstly here is a test without PYTHONPATH

% echo $PYTHONPATH
% python -c "import inkex" 
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'inkex'

Then hydrate the shell environment and try again

% source ~/.zshenv
% echo $PYTHONPATH
/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.8/site-packages:/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/inkscape/extensions
% python -c "import inkex"

What I learnt is that site-packages needs to come before extensions.