apy --help gives "Exception: couldn't find web folder"

I’m running Manjaro Linux. I installed apy using pipx. My anki is installed with pacman, but the source wasn’t in /usr/share/anki/. Instead it looks as though it’s in /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/ – at least, there are directories for anki, aqt, and ankirspy in there. So I do export APY_ANKI_PATH=/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/

However when I run apy --help I get this output:

reverting to stock json
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ckp95/.local/bin/apy", line 5, in <module>
    from apy.cli import main
  File "/home/ckp95/.local/pipx/venvs/apy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/apy/cli.py", line 6, in <module>
    from apy.anki import Anki
  File "/home/ckp95/.local/pipx/venvs/apy/lib/python3.8/site-packages/apy/anki.py", line 10, in <module>
    from aqt.profiles import ProfileManager
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aqt/__init__.py", line 35, in <module>
    from aqt.main import AnkiQt  # isort:skip
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aqt/main.py", line 21, in <module>
    import aqt.mediasrv
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aqt/mediasrv.py", line 31, in <module>
    _exportFolder = _getExportFolder()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aqt/mediasrv.py", line 28, in _getExportFolder
    raise Exception("couldn't find web folder")
Exception: couldn't find web folder

I dug around in the mediasrv.py file and found this as the culprit function:

def _getExportFolder():
    data_folder = aqt_data_folder()
    webInSrcFolder = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(data_folder, "web"))
    if os.path.exists(webInSrcFolder):
        return webInSrcFolder
    elif isMac:
        dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
        return os.path.abspath(dir + "/../../Resources/web")
    else:
        raise Exception("couldn't find web folder")


_exportFolder = _getExportFolder()

I stuck a print(data_folder) debug statement in there and ran apy --help again, this is what I got:

/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aqt/../aqt_data

Any idea how to fix?

[lervag]

I’m not happy with this solution but it does work.

Sorry about that! If you find a way to make this work reliably when installed in a venv, then please let me know!

[ckp95]

Nevermind, I just installed it on my system Python rather than a pyenv one. I’m not happy with this solution but it does work.