title: can't import google.appengine.api
body: <p>This should be pretty basic as I've installed lots of python packages, but I can't for the life of my get google apis client library for python to install.</p>
  
  <p>I'm pressure sure I've gone through the instructions on this website properly:
  <a href="https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/start/installation" rel="noreferrer">https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/start/installation</a></p>
  
  <p>To summarize I've done the following:</p>
  
  <p>$ easy_install --upgrade google-api-python-client</p>
  
  <p>this seems to work fine, doesn't report any errors or warnings</p>
  
  <p>downloaded and unzipped google-api-python-client-gae-1.2.zip into the directory where my project is</p>
  
  <p>but if I open an iPython session in the folder where I unpacked the full dependencies I can't do the basic imports such as:</p>
  
  <p>import google.appengine.api it just says "No Module named google.appengine.api"</p>
  
  <p>I checked in my site-packages folder and google_api_python_client-1.2-py2.7.egg is there. But it doesn't show up in sys.path</p>
  
  <p>when I do sys.path.append('C:\Anaconda\Lib\site-packages\google_api_python_cli
  ent-1.2-py2.7.egg') it adds the correct path, but the import still doesn't work.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT: This fixed my problem</strong></p>
  
  <p>Adding the Google SDK to my Python path did the trick. I don't know why the installer didn't do this when I ran it. but hey, this worked</p>
  
  <p>So if I run:</p>
  
  <pre><code>sys.path.append('C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\google_appengine')
  
  from google.appengine import api
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>works!</p>