Python UDF for piglatin script not finding re module

Question

I'm having trouble creating a UDF for a piglatin script I'm using. My problem is that when I run the script with pig script.pig I get the following error:

[main] ERROR org.apache.pig.tools.grunt.Grunt - ERROR 1121: Python Error. Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "utils.py", line 3, in <module>
    import re
ImportError: No module named re

And on my "utils.py" script, I'm importing the module like so: import re

Why is it not finding the re module and how can I fix it?

Edit I should note that if I run the python script directly using the python command, I don't get an error saying that it couldn't find the re module.

Edit 2

Ok, based on the comments, I installed jython (which wasn't installed on my system) and here are the outputs of print sys.path for my script:

Using python

['/home/hduser/bqmScripts/betsScripts', '/usr/lib/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gst-0.10', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6', '/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/gtk-2.0', '/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages']

Using Jython

['', '/usr/share/jython/Lib', '/usr/lib/site-python', '__classpath__']

Using pig

['/pig/lib/Lib', '__classpath__', '__pyclasspath__/']

After seeing this, I tried to add the missing path elements from jython into the pig version, and what I get now is this:

 File "utils.py", line 8, in <module>
    import re
  File "/usr/share/jython/Lib/re.py", line 7, in <module>
    import sre, sys
  File "/usr/share/jython/Lib/sre.py", line 97, in <module>
    import sre_compile
  File "/usr/share/jython/Lib/sre_compile.py", line 17, in <module>
    assert _sre.MAGIC == MAGIC, "SRE module mismatch"
AssertionError: SRE module mismatch

SOLVED

To solve my latest error message I looked for the version of jython that my pig installation was using (2.5) and installed that one manually. That fixed the issue.

Answer 1

re is part of the stdlib, therefore either your Python installation is broken or incomplete, or something has damaged the contents of sys.path.