pyttsx: No module named 'engine'

Question

I\'m trying to install TTS package by using this. Everything was okay until I tried to execute the following command:

import pyttsx

I got b

Answer 1

Combining the advice from Jacob Tsui and Jokhongir Mamarasulov worked for me. To summarize:

In site_packages/pyttsx/init.py, modify "from engine import Engine" to

from .engine import Engine

Then, in site_packages/pyttsx/engine.py,

1. Modify import driver to

   from . import driver
   

2. Modify except Exception, e to

   except Exception as e
   

And finally, in site_packages/pyttsx/driver.py modify except Exception, e to

except Exception as e

See the responses from the aforementioned authors for the rationale behind these changes.