Fail to find the module "libcomcat" after install libcomcat sucessfully

[sijiasoniachen]

Good afternoon,

I am scraping the USGS Shakemap shape.zip files using Libcomcat. I follow the installation instruction to install libcomcat using "Anaconda Powershell Prompt", the codes are as followed.

_(base) PS C:\Users\sonia> conda create -n comcat --channel conda-forge python=3.8
WARNING: A conda environment already exists at 'C:\Users\sonia\anaconda3\envs\comcat'
Remove existing environment (y/[n])?

CondaSystemExit: Exiting.

(base) PS C:\Users\sonia> conda activate comcat

(comcat) PS C:\Users\sonia>
(comcat) PS C:\Users\sonia> conda config --add channels conda-forge

Warning: 'conda-forge' already in 'channels' list, moving to the top
(comcat) PS C:\Users\sonia>
(comcat) PS C:\Users\sonia> conda install libcomcat

Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: done

All requested packages already installed.

(comcat) PS C:\Users\sonia>
(comcat) PS C:\Users\sonia>_

However, I fail to find the libcomcat module when starting with Spyder (python 3.8):

_from libcomcat.search import search
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in
from libcomcat.search import search

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'libcomcat'_

I have tried to install python for version 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8, but none of them work.

Could you provide any suggestions about this situation?

Thank you!

Sonia

[emthompson-usgs]

My guess is that this is a virtual environment issue. Before checking on what spyder is doing, try running ipython from within the comcat virtual environment:

conda activate comcat
which ipython
ipython

Let us know what path you get from the second line. Then try to import libcomcat to make sure that it is installed:

import libcomcat

And tell us what happens. If that works, then the issue is probably that you need to run spyder from within the comcat virtual environment. It isn't clear from your post how you opened spyder.