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George Sotiropoulos
George Sotiropoulos

Reputation: 2153

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'matplotlib._path'

While I installed properly the matplotlib and seaborn. I was able to import matplotlib but when I was trying to import the seaborn I got the following error message. ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'matplotlib._path' . Same if I was trying to import matplotlib.pyplot.

After spending a lot of time googling and trying this and that, installing and unistaling, finally, I

first checked out the import sys sys.path to see what are the folders that it searches for the installed packages.

my result was something like this.

['', 'C:\\Users\\gsotiropoulos\\AppData\\Local\\conda\\conda\\envs\\py36\\python36.zip', 'C:\\Users\\gsotiropoulos\\AppData\\Local\\conda\\conda\\envs\\py36\\DLLs', 'C:\\Users\\gsotiropoulos\\AppData\\Local\\conda\\conda\\envs\\py36\\lib', 'C:\\Users\\gsotiropoulos\\AppData\\Local\\conda\\conda\\envs\\py36', 'C:\\Users\\gsotiropoulos\\AppData\\Roaming\\Python\\Python36\\site-packages', 'C:\\Users\\gsotiropoulos\\AppData\\Local\\conda\\conda\\envs\\py36\\lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\Users\\gsotiropoulos\\AppData\\Local\\conda\\conda\\envs\\py36\\lib\\site-packages\\win32', 'C:\\Users\\gsotiropoulos\\AppData\\Local\\conda\\conda\\envs\\py36\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', 'C:\\Users\\gsotiropoulos\\AppData\\Local\\conda\\conda\\envs\\py36\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin', 'C:\\Users\\gsotiropoulos\\AppData\\Local\\conda\\conda\\envs\\py36\\lib\\site-packages\\IPython\\extensions', 'C:\\Users\\gsotiropoulos\\.ipython']

then as suggested I import matplotlib as mpl and mpl.__path__ seeing that I import matplotlib from the folder 'C:\\Users\\gsotiropoulos\\AppData\\Roaming\\Python\\Python36\\site-packages' Which is not the one from anaconda and it is older. I am not sure if it would be better to just remove this folder completely.

However, as I understand, python first searched there and found a matplotlib package which was outdated. I simply changed the name of the `matplotlib' to something like 'matplotlib_test' and then the library is installed from one of the anaconda folders and the problem is solved.

As I understand I installed in the past python but the 'roaming' folder did not get unistalled. Is that right? I wonder if I should delete the "roaming" folder to avoid similar other problems.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1145

Answers (2)

George Sotiropoulos
George Sotiropoulos

Reputation: 2153

I finally started using anaconda and installing everything in one environment. In this way, I save and import everything that I want in this environment without any confusion.

Upvotes: 0

Interested Programmer
Interested Programmer

Reputation: 31

A temporary solution is to add the line sys.path.append(/path/to/located/package). A permanent solution is to add the path to .bashrc

Upvotes: 1

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