"No module named x" even though it was just installed with pip

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I’ve created 3 files, snek.py, requirements.txt and runsnek.py. runsnek.py installs all the required modules in requirements.txt with pip and runs snek.py. Everything works fine on Windows 10, but when trying to run on Ubuntu (WSL2), an error is thrown:

❯ python runsnek.py
Requirement already up-to-date: pathlib in /home/rootuser/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 2)) (1.0.1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "snek.py", line 1, in <module>
    from pathlib import Path
ImportError: No module named pathlib

I’m not sure what could’ve caused the problem on Linux. It might be some kind of pip modules path that isn’t defined. printenv does not show anything containing the word python.

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Here are all of the mentioned files.
runsnek.py:

import os, platform

os.system('pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt')
if platform.system() == 'Windows':
  os.system('py snek.py')
elif '':
  raise Warning('snek could not be ran, try running snek.py instead')
else:
  os.system('python snek.py')

requirements.txt:

# pip reqs
pathlib

snek.py:

from pathlib import Path
cwd = Path('.')
# [...]

Asked By: wateroverdose

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Answer 1

It seems you are using python2 in your WSL2 instance.

In the line os.system('python snek.py') it should run python2 instead of python3.

To correct the problem, you can change this line of code by os.system('python3 snek.py').

Answered By: Julien Sorin

Answer 2

Your run file can be simplified:

import sys, os
print('Running with ' + sys.executable)
os.system(sys.executable + ' -m pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt')
os.system(sys.executable +' snek.py')

sys.executable always contains the path of the python interpreter running the current script. Using python -m pip install also ensures that the same python interpreter is used for pip installing, which solves your original problem

Answered By: FlyingTeller

"No module named x" even though it was just installed with pip

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