title: How do I import a local .whl file to Jupyter notebook?
body: <p>I am trying to use Christoph Gohlke's PyMVPA package (<a href="https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pymvpa" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pymvpa</a>) in a Jupyter notebook. I've downloaded the correct version (windowsx64 for python 3.7) which I have saved locally as a .whl file.</p>
  
  <p>What's worked so far: I successfully installed pymvpa2 and its related requirements with pip. Pip freeze shows the expected list of packages.</p>
  
  <pre><code>pip freeze
      nibabel==2.5.0
      numpy==1.17.0
      pymvpa2==2.6.5
      scipy==1.3.1
      six==1.12.0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Importing the other packages (numpy, etc.) to Jupyter also went smoothly.</p>
  
  <p>What hasn't worked: importing pymvpa2.
  Bear with me here please, I'm very new at this. Here are some variations I've tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import mvpa2
  
  import pymvpa2
  from pymvpa2 import mvpa2
  
  from users.finnley.downloads.pymvpa import *
  
  from 'users.finnley.downloads.pymvpa' import pymvpa2
  
  from 'users.finnley.downloads.pymvpa' import 'pymvpa2-2.6.5-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl'
  
  from 'users\finnley\downloads\pymvpa' import *
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Every single one of the above throws a ModuleNotFoundError.</p>
  
  <p>i.e.
       in 
      ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'users'</p>
  
  <p>or,</p>
  
  <pre><code>ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pymvpa2'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any insight would be much appreciated.</p>