import ncs failed

[saccom]

Hello,

i'm running VSCode and i would like to have an interactive window running the script in order to better learn how ncs works. Currently if i run "source ~/nso-6.1/ncsrc" before running the python script, it is ok. But i don't run the source command, the "import ncs" fails: No module named 'ncs'.

But i really would like to run in an interactive window, where i cannot put the "source" command.

How can i have an interactive window and ncs module loaded?

Thanks

[Jan Lindblad · Accepted solution]

Hi Saccom,

The most important thing that the ncsrc script sets up is the Python module search path (PYTHONPATH). But you can do that inside the python interpreter as well. If the path to the NSO installation you intend to use is at /Users/jlindbla/nso/6.2, you could do it like this:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.path.append('/Users/jlindbla/nso/6.2/src/ncs/pyapi')
>>> import ncs