Can't load Python modules installed via pip from site-packages directory

Question

I am trying to install and use the Evernote module (https://github.com/evernote/evernote-sdk-python) . I ran pip install evernote and it says that the installation worked.

I can confirm that the evernote module exists in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages. However, when I try to run python -c "import evernote" I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named evernote

This is the contents of my .bash-profile:

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM into a shell session *as a function*

# Setting PATH for Python 3.3
# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.3/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/

I am having this same problem with other modules installed with pip. Help?

EDIT: I am a super newbie and have not edited that .bash-profile file.

EDIT: python -c 'import sys; print "\n".join(sys.path)' Outputs the following:

/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/setuptools-1.3.2-py2.7.egg
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages

EDIT: I seemed to have made progress towards a solution by adding export PYTHONPATH=“/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages” to my .bash_profile file. However, now when I run python -c 'from evernote.api.client import EvernoteClient' it tries to import oauth2, which fails with the same error. The ouath2 module is present in the module directory.

Carn

I can confirm that I am using Python 2.7.5. – Carn

Try this line to check if Evernote SDK is installed python -c 'from evernote.api.client import EvernoteClient' – Kerk

python --version gives my 2.7.5. I am not sure how that comment got added to the .bash-profile. I have Python 3 installed, but I have to use python3 in order to use it. – Carn

That line is what I was using, and it does not work. I get ImportError: No module named evernote.api.client – Carn

What does type python output? what about python -c 'import sys; print "\n".join(sys.path)'? – Brody

type python gives me: python is /usr/bin/python I updated my post with the output of that second command. – Carn

This worked for me: geeksforgeeks.org/python-import-module-from-different-directory – Paramatta

Answer 1

/usr/bin/python is the executable for the python that comes with OS X. /usr/local/lib is a location for user-installed programs only, possibly from Python.org or Homebrew. So you're mixing different Python installs, and changing the python path is only a partial workaround for different packages being installed for different installations.

In order to make sure you use the pip associated with a particular python, you can run python -m pip install <pkg>, or go look at what the pip on your path is, or is symlinked to.

Laney

python -m pip install <pkg> seems to work beautifully. – Psychopharmacology

What does -m do? – Layamon

@Layamon : -m is from library Module – Rael

python -m pip install <pkg> is the best workaround. Alternately, you can also do this: -> import sys -> sys.path.append("/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages") Adding these two lines to your python script or typing them in the interpreter works the same way. – Avicenna

I get /usr/bin/python: No module named pip when I try to use this command. – Temptation

Answer 2

I figured it out! I added this line:

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

to my .bash_profile and now I can import modules stored in that directory. Thanks for everyone who answered.

Carn

I got the feeling that solved the whole python not working on mac EPIC. Thanx! – Shiite

It's also common problem with python3. That solution also works with that – Angelus

This didn't work for me when pointing to Python3 site package folder – Tannie

Answer 3

I faced similar problem,its related to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages had no read or write permission for group and other, and they were owned by root. This means that only the root user could access them.

Try this:

$ sudo chmod -R go+rX /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

Beggary

Answer 4

None of this helped me with my similar problem. Instead, I had to fix the newly installed files permissions to be able to import. This is usually an obvious thing, but not so much when you use sudo when installing module/packages.

Hatpin

I also had to delete some .pyc files from one of my packages. I think they were created after I had made the package directory readable, but before I made the package subdirs readable. The error message I was receiving which led me to the .pyc file problem was: File "requests/__init__.py", line 97, in <module> from . import utils ImportError: cannot import name utils In my case, I think it was __init__.pyc which was the problem, but I removed all .pyc files to be sure. Lesson: Do chmod -R a+rX site-package-module-dir as described in @prarit-lamba's answer – Annulation

Answer 5

Simply just type in terminal:

sudo pip install pillow

and type import (whatever you like) or type from (whatever you like) import (whatever you like).

Aarhus