eVote installation - Cannot import module 'rsa'

[Alex Glaros]

anyone have suggestions for resolving this eVote installation error on Web2py windows PC version using sqlLite?

<type 'exceptions.ImportError'> Cannot import module 'rsa'

thanks

Alex Glaros

[Alex Glaros]

any ideas appreciated

[Leonel Câmara]

What eVote application is giving you this error and can you show us the rest of the exception stack trace.

[Alex Glaros]

I just copied source code (zip) directly from gitHub (https://github.com/mdipierro/evote/) and only changed db to sqLite in model

Error ticket for "eVote"

Ticket ID

127.0.0.1.2014-12-18.12-59-42.0f925746-ec3f-4f2b-9a6f-16f008264aaa

<type 'exceptions.ImportError'> Cannot import module 'rsa'

Version

web2py™	Version 2.9.11-stable+timestamp.2014.09.15.23.35.11
Python	Python 2.7.6: C:\alex\web2py\web2py\web2py\web2py.exe (prefix: C:\Python27)

Traceback

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Traceback (most recent call last): File "gluon/restricted.py", line 224, in restricted File "C:/alex/web2py/web2py/web2py/applications/eVote/controllers/default.py", line 1, in <module> from ballot import ballot2form, form2ballot, blank_ballot, \ File "gluon/custom_import.py", line 92, in custom_importer File "applications\eVote\modules\ballot.py", line 3, in <module> import rsa File "gluon/custom_import.py", line 86, in custom_importer ImportError: Cannot import module 'rsa'

[Carlos Zenteno]

Maybe you do not have the RSA module installed so you cannot import it?

RSA module
Python-RSA is a pure-Python RSA implementation. It supports encryption and decryption, signing and verifying signatures, and key generation according to PKCS#1 version 1.5. It can be used as a Python library as well as on the commandline.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rsa


Hope that it is that easy!

[Alex Glaros]

oh, okay.  Does this sound correct?  I cannot install rsa on my binary windows PC desktop version, but should be able to run it from pythonanywhere.com

[Leonel Câmara]

Yep you need the RSA module, you don't need to install it as it's a pure python module, you can put it in your application's modules folder.