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JordanBelf
JordanBelf

Reputation: 3348

Can't find simplejson but when trying to install it says it is there?

When I try to compile I am getting the following error:

ImportError: No module named simplejson

So I tried:

pip install simplejson

And I am getting:

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): simplejson in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages
Cleaning up...

I tried uninstalling it and installing it again and the same error.

I am running python 2.7.9 on OS Yosemite

Any idea what can I do? Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7749

Answers (2)

c0d3rman
c0d3rman

Reputation: 667

See my answer here. The short version is to make sure the version of pip you're using (2 vs 3) is the same as the version of python you're using. The commands you want are

pip2 install simplejson

if you're using python 2 and

pip3 install simplejson

if you're using python 3.

The full answer as mirrored from the link:

I had this same issue and it was not fixed by running pip install simplejson despite pip insisting that it was installed. Then I realized that I had both python 2 and python 3 installed.

> python -V
Python 2.7.12
> pip -V
pip 9.0.1 from /usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages (python 3.5)

Installing with the correct version of pip is as easy as using pip2:

> pip2 install simplejson

and then python 2 can import simplejson fine.

Upvotes: 1

user3499200
user3499200

Reputation: 9

If you can't get your simplejson installation working, you can alternatively use the json library included in by default in Python 2.6+. If you're not concerned with small speed differences or backwards compatibility issues, the JSON library should be adequate and provides the same API. For more info on the differences between json and simplejson, check out this post.

You can also satisfy current dependencies on simplejson by changing your import statement from 

import simplejson

to 

import json as simplejson

Upvotes: 1

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