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I would like to port my script, that is great on desktop, to RPi. It is a general question, but just for an example I show my first lines: 

from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler,HTTPServer
import cgi

I can put pip list and I dont see my modules, neither many modules seen on desktop (this is the reason for this Question), however many are written in plain python, no compilation needed (IMHO).

  • Is somebody working on it? Or no progress expected? Can one manage by himself?

I searched a bit Can I run Python 3.3+ on Raspbian Jessie? and What programming languages does the Raspberry Pi support?, but I have not a clear mind about the depths of support of Python.

In Build something that requires dh-python I see somebody tackled the problem, but the idea is not very clear to me.

Edit: if the question is downvoted, would be very nice to give a hint where is a problem. Thank you Edit2: http.server cannot by found

Edit3: The question deserved -1. Details in my answer bellow

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  • I actually used a short webserver code, that is proxy the open-street-maps servers. This way it is possible easily to make an offline gps map system for RPi. Pitty I cannot get through – jaromrax Feb 8 '17 at 13:26
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    You can use pip to install Python packages on the Pi - which in this case is more or less a general purpose computer. Some packages require compiling which could take some time on the Pi (e.g. numpy - it's quite heavy, takes hours). But most other packages should work fine. Just give it a try. – Ghanima♦ Feb 8 '17 at 13:29
  • I wrote in text, that I tried pip list - I will edit with explicite - the modules dont exist. So I gave a try, now I need some hint – jaromrax Feb 8 '17 at 13:46
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    pip list shows the packages installed not the packages on the repo. Did you try to install them pip install <name>? Or pip3 for that matter. – Ghanima♦ Feb 8 '17 at 14:47
  • The http and cgi modules are built in - you dont need pip to use them. Have you tried to run your code? – tobyd Feb 8 '17 at 14:50
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Thank you for the help. I should have put the question accurately - but I did not know how. Now I would like to share my finding.

1/ Old RPi - it is important the RPi version - my code did not work, partially because I tried it on old RPi with debian wheezy. From now on I stick to RPi3, one can save lot of pain.

2/ Different Pythons - I have miniconda3 installed...now I see there are

  1. python 2.x. in /usr/bin/

  2. python 3.x in /usr/bin

  3. miniconda local install (that was my case and my problems, dont ask me why)

    I finally got successful with orignal python3 i.e. #!/usr/bin/python3 in the script.

3/ apt installs - many problems were solved by sudo pip3 install something-missing. But sometimes, I had to use repositories like apt-get install python3-tk.

I have not yet all working, but numpy, http, staticmaps, tkinter are installed and I can continue. Thank you guys, discussions helped me, at least I knew it was my problem, not RPi.

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