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Jeef
Jeef

Reputation: 27285

Python "Requests" install issue - HTTPBasicAuth

I'm on a mac and have tried the following:

easy_install requests

and

pip install requests

When I try import requests command in REPL python I get the following error

Python 2.7.5 (default, Mar  9 2014, 22:15:05)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.0.68)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import requests
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "requests.py", line 4, in <module>
    from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
ImportError: No module named auth

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 17308

Answers (1)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1124090

You have a local module named requests.py in your current directory. Rename that file, it is masking the installed library.

What is happening in your traceback:

  1. Python tries to find requests and the first item on the sys.path search path is a file named requests.py, it fits the requirements.
  2. The file contains the line from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth, Python tries to import that.
  3. Python already has a module requests imported (from step 1), but since it is a plain module and not a package, an ImportError is thrown.

Upvotes: 6

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