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Reputation: 125

Tweepy module says not installed

I realize this question might come off as an easy fix, but it has been annoying me for the last hour. I'm new to working in a Python environment on my Mac, and I can't seem to install the tweepy module in the directory that I'm working in.

First I installed Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

Next I installed Python:

brew install python

Which resulted in:

Python has been installed as /usr/local/bin/python3

Then I attempted to install the Tweepy package within the path /Desktop/twitterBot:

pip3 install tweepy --user

Which resulted in:

Successfully installed tweepy-3.9.0

After this I wanted to check that the Tweepy package was successfully installed, so within my bot.py file, the only line I wrote was import tweepy

When attempted to run my code python bot.py within the path Desktop/twitterBot, I receive the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bot.py", line 1, in <module>
import tweepy
ImportError: No module named tweepy

I really appreciate your guys' help. Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 89

Answers (1)

Harmon758
Harmon758

Reputation: 5157

As explained, you're running your code with a different version of Python than the one you installed Tweepy for.

Mac OS X 10.8 comes with Python 2.7 pre-installed by Apple.

Remember that if you choose to install a newer Python version from python.org, you will have two different but functional Python installations on your computer, so it will be important that your paths and usages are consistent with what you want to do.

https://docs.python.org/3/using/mac.html

Since you installed Tweepy for Python 3 with pip3, you'll need to use python3 to run your code.
See https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-and-Python.

Upvotes: 1

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