ImportError when using Google App Engine

Question

When I add the following line to Google's helloworld example:

  from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas

I get the following error:

  <type 'exceptions.ImportError'>: No module named reportlab.pdfgen

I can get at the reportlab.pdfgen library from the python console. Why can't I get at it from google's dev_appserver?

Answer 1

Copying the module locally worked.

From

Python\Lib\site-packages\reportlab

to

helloworld\reportlab

Answer 2

I believe the google app engine does not include all the standard python modules. I know that anything that works with sockes is disabled, such as urllib.urlopen().