Installing the Posit Client (Python)

[kanoacook]

Hi,

I've been having issues with installing the posit client. I've tried:
pip install posit-sdk https://docs.posit.co/connect/cookbook/getting-started/installing-the-posit-sdk/

When I run
pip show posit-sdk

It returns

Name: posit-sdk
Version: 0.8.0
Summary: Posit SDK for Python
Home-page: 
Author: 
Author-email: 
License: MIT License
        
        Copyright (c) 2024 posit-dev
        
        Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
        of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
        in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
        to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
        copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
        furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
        
        The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
        copies or substantial portions of the Software.
        
        THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
        IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
        FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
        AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
        LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
        OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
        SOFTWARE.
        
Location: /Users/.../venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages
Requires: packaging, requests, typing-extensions
Required-by: 

So it shows that it downloads correctly; however, when I run:
ls -l /Users/.../venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/posit_sdk
it returns:
No such file or directory

I've also tried installing it straight from Github to no avail. In my Python environment, I get underlines for both:
import posit and
import posit_sdk and from posit.connect

The end goal is to be able to display "Hello, {user.email}. Welcome to ____ Dashboard!" and have some more user-based pages based on extracting the user's id from Posit Connect. I haven't come across this error on any StackExchange or such yet so figured I'd see if others are having this issue.

[tdstein]

Hi @kanoacook,

Thanks for opening an issue.

The ... in /Users/.../venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages is odd. Is this something you added, or is this the result from pip show? If your IDE does not recognize the import, then it's likely the virtual environment you are using to run pip install, and the one configured in your IDE are different.

The steps you have taken to install the package are correct. Please follow these instructions to import the package and create a client instance: https://docs.posit.co/connect/cookbook/getting-started/initializing-a-client/

To achieve your end goal, you will need to use the Connect API integration feature:

• See the following for instructions on setting up the Connect API integration: https://docs.posit.co/connect/admin/integrations/oauth-integrations/connect/
• See the following for using the Connect API integration in your code: https://docs.posit.co/connect/user/oauth-integrations/index.html#obtaining-a-viewer-oauth-access-token

[nealrichardson]

So it shows that it downloads correctly; however, when I run:
ls -l /Users/.../venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/posit_sdk
it returns:
No such file or directory

Looking in a virtualenv locally, I see posit inside of site-packages. Not posit_sdk--that's not the installed name.

[kanoacook]

Hey, thank you both for the fast replies. I had to uninstall both posit & posit-sdk, and re-install posit-sdk; it seems like the presence of posit in my pip was blocking me from being able to execute from posit.connect

[tdstein]

Glad you were able to figure it out!

Unfortunately, the package on PyPI named posit predates this package. It's unaffiliated with our organization.