ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'. But 'requests' already installed

Question

Trying to import 'requests'.

Has it installed via pip3 install requests? But still, have this error.

C:\Users\Vikentiy>pip3 list
Package    Version
---------- ----------
certifi    2018.11.29
chardet    3.0.4
Django     2.1.7
idna       2.8
pip        19.0.2
pytz       2018.9
requests   2.21.0
setuptools 40.6.2
simplejson 3.16.0
urllib3    1.24.1
virtualenv 16.4.0

C:\Users\Vikentiy>python --version
Python 3.7.2

Error Traceback:

C:\Users\Vikentiy\untitled2\venv\Scripts\python.exe C:/Users/Vikentiy/untitled2/requeststests.py 
Traceback (most recent call last): 
File "C:/Users/Vikentiy/untitled2/requeststests.py", line 1, in <module> import requests`

Answer 1

Actually You are using an IDE like VS Code. In case of VS Code change the "Default Interpreter Path". There error happens that there is another python version installed on your system and your IDE is using that version. Now what to do: Steps:

1. Find the actual python path e.g user/appdata/local/programs/python/311
2. Goto VSCode settings>python and past this path in "Default Interpreter Path" Done.

Answer 2

There is a possibility that you are having more than one Python installations and you have this module installed in one installation but using another for execution.

You can check the Python interpreter you are using for execution.

Run

pip show <module name>

and check the module causing issue, is in which location, this will tell you which Python installation you should use as your interpreter or else you can copy the module files manually to your current Python interpreter installation's location.

Answer 3

requests could be many different sub-modules so like if you are using urllib request it would be

import urllib.request

I would recommend urllib.request because it has worked well in the past. I'm pretty sure "requests" is pretty old and very finicky and difficult to use. i was trying to access data from a server a few days ago so users wouldn't have to redownload in order to get updates and instead run code grabbed from my webserver. I tried getting requests to work but to no avail. after some digging around I found urllib which worked like a charm.

for example, this code grabs code from a webpage and executes it:

import urllib.request
page = urllib.request.urlopen('https://pastebin.com/raw/j5LSmvP4')
r = page.read()
exec(r.decode())

also when creating a StackOverflow question, I would recommend showing a code snippet or example as a visual representation to know what the answer-er is dealing with in terms of context.

Answer 4

If you are using venv (virtual environment), you may need to consider where it's path. for my case it was outside my project folder. So I had to first install request inside the main python's path then I recreate venv inside my project.

inside_your_project#python -m venv ./venv

Answer 5

This issue is due to missing request module in python package .So you can use below command to install and recheck by restarting your IDE

pip install requests

If already installed better to upgrade

pip install --upgrade pip

Answer 6

Try to uninstall requests and then again install it using pip

pip uninstall requests

and again install it

pip install requests

or if you didn't get what I am saying so please visit

https://scmquest.com/resolved-importerror-no-module-named-requests-usr-bin-python-no-module-named-pip-on-macos/

Answer 7

That's the exact solution which works for me, please follow this:

As like, first try to get the version of the requests module installed previously, this can be find by

pip install requests

Now, you will get the message:

Requirement already satisfied: requests in /opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages (2.24.0)

See, here the version of the requests module i.e., (2.24.0)

Now, the simple basic logic is this like you should install just the previous version of the requests (2.24.0). So, you should now install requests (2.20.0)

For this use command:

pip install requests==2.20.0

Now, I think you can test import requests and this will work fine.

Further, if any error occurs then please let me know in the comments.

Thanks, HaPpY Coding 🤗

Answer 8

Another cause of this might be multiple Python versions installations. So if you type in your terminal:

pip3 install requests 

The requests library will be automatically installed to your default python3, for example, Python3.6. However, let's say you have another Python version, for example, Python3.7, what you should do is:

pip3.7 install requests

This should solve this problem.

If you are running your code in the terminal, you should try:

python3.7 file_to_run.py

Answer 9

If it is installed this will WORK:

c:\>python  (or on Mac/Linux "$ python")
>>> import requests
>>> requests.get("http://127.0.0.1")
<Response [200]>

If you see this error when running your script/IDE:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "E:\test.py", line 1, in <module>

import requests
ImportError: No module named requests

Try:

python script.py

Answer is based on https://www.edureka.co/community/84584/python-requests-module-import-error-module-named-requests

Then the trick for me was not to start up a VirtualEnv, I actually found I was running the x64 version of python when I'd installed the requests package into the python 32 bit folder c:\program files (x86)\python37-32\lib\site-packages. This is a screenshot from the internet but it shows you how to change the interpreter you're using - in my case - I need to set it to Python 3.7.4(x86) 32 bit:

Answer 10

Run in command prompt and write command pip install requests in scripts directory

cd \Python27\scripts
pip install requests

Answer 11

If you're using PyCharm as IDE, try closing and restarting PyCharm. Move the mouse cursor over the "requests" (with red curly line beneath it), until the red light bulb next to it show up. Select the first option in it, "Install package requests". PyCharm will take care of the installation from there.

I ran into the same issue and have tried all the solutions here on Stack Overflow.