No module named 'ai'

[howdey57]

Forgive me if this is a really simple question or, in fact, unrelated to Timefold but I have tried to create a simple constraints app twice, using two different AIs (ChatGPT and Cursor) but get the same error.

No module named 'ai'

Does anyone know why this might be happening?

Thanks in advance

I am using a debian Raspberry Pi with
Package Version
blinker 1.9.0
click 8.1.8
Flask 3.0.2
itsdangerous 2.2.0
Jinja2 3.1.6
jpype1 1.5.2
MarkupSafe 3.0.2
packaging 24.2
pip 23.0.1
setuptools 66.1.1
timefold 1.20.1b0
Werkzeug 3.1.3
openjdk version "17.0.14" 2025-01-21

[Christopher-Chianelli]

Are you using code generated by ChatGPT/Cursor? If so, they might have generated an incorrect import. Please see our Python quickstarts: (for example, https://github.com/TimefoldAI/timefold-quickstarts/tree/stable/python/hello-world).

[Christopher-Chianelli]

Another possibility is you have a directory called 'ai' in your content root/where you called Python, which overrides our imports.

[howdey57]

Many of the ChatGPT responses indicate it's your second point. Is this the command I should use? sudo find / -type d -name "ai"

It doesn't return anything.

[Christopher-Chianelli]

My recommendations:

• Start from scratch using the Python hello work quickstart by cloning this repository: https://github.com/TimefoldAI/timefold-quickstarts/tree/stable. Follow the instructions in the README to run the quickstart, then slowly modify that quickstart to suit your needs.
• Do not use sudo; sudo can very easily corrupt your system if you do not know what you are doing.
• Do not use ChatGPT to generate entire projects at once; instead consider using it to define a single function/class at a time, and make sure you fully understand that function/class before using it.

[howdey57]

Ok. Good advice. My confidence in ai has been shaken. Your comment about sudo is, I presume, is about permissions.

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