Reputation: 592

No module named openai

I've installed openai on my laptop with pip install openai.

Have installed on my laptop and after installed on the same folder where my code file is. But when I try to run the code I get ImportError: No module named openai

This is the code from the file. Pretty simple:

import openai

openai.api_key = API_KEY

prompt = "Say this is a test"

response = openai.Completion.create(
    engine="text-davinci-001", prompt=prompt, max_tokens=6
)

print(response)

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 43

Answers (16)

Robert Tan

Reputation: 674

If you have Jupyter lab/notebook running just close it all, shut down the terminal, install the module via pip and restart Jupyter.

Because installing the module while Jupyter was running from another terminal session didn't work for me.

Upvotes: 0

Mihir

Reputation: 105

In my case I uninstalled and installed openai again, however, I was still getting the same error. I found out that I had 2 python versions installed on my machine. So executing

python main.py

Gave me an error, however, using

python3 main.py

Solved the issue. Please check if this is the problem in your case too. Note: I was using a virtual env but I was still getting this error.

Upvotes: 0

Ved Prakash

Reputation: 121

Was facing this issue with using pyCharm, turned out pyCharm maintains separate execution environment for each of the projects.

I tried to run the same code in VSCode, it ran without any error.

Upvotes: 0

Victor Lagunas

Reputation: 193

Try it works for me , replace 3.10 for your python version

sudo pip3.10 install openai

Upvotes: 2

ankpandit

Reputation: 1

On your IDE , manually add the openai module to the interpreter . The issue will be resolved !

For Pycharm ,

Go to File -> settings -> project -> python interpreter -> add the module (look for + symbol ) Tadaa !

Upvotes: 0

Roylic Korisky

Reputation: 49

For the one who tries to run it on macOS (Please install Flask first), then use

sudo flask run

and it works.

Upvotes: 3

lol

Reputation: 1

I did pip install openai on the macOS terminal at the root and the project worked afterwards.

Upvotes: 0

elhadi dp ıpɐɥןǝ

Reputation: 5201

This can happen if you have multiple versions of python

to show where pip has installed openai package, you can run this command

pip show openai

you will have an output like this

Name: openai
Version: 0.26.4
Summary: Python client library for the OpenAI API
Home-page: https://github.com/openai/openai-python
Author: OpenAI
Author-email: [email protected]
License: None
Location: /home/${USER}/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages
Requires: requests, tqdm, aiohttp
Required-by:

as you see, for me pip installs the package openai for the python version 3.8.

so if the default python version is 2.7 for example, when running python then making import openai, this will not work.

you can change the default python version to the same verion of the package openai, use

sudo update-alternatives --config python

Then select the correct version (3.8 for me).

you can also try to install openai for your default python version:

python -m pip install openai

Upvotes: 21

mdeotti

Reputation: 121

If anyone runs into this problem when running Firebase on an emulator:

You have to make sure this config is set to 'true' on pyvenv.cfg:

include-system-site-packages = true

Upvotes: 0

Karthikeyan VK

Reputation: 6006

After you run the following command

pip install openai

If you are using visual studio code restart your kernal.it worked for me.

Upvotes: 3

Khushi Mittal

Reputation: 41

This might be a temporary VS code error. Try closing the app and trying it again. It worked well for me on pycharm.

I used this:

pip3 install openai

Upvotes: 0

clicmolette

Reputation: 477

I encountred the same problem and all what I did was:

First uninstall the openai package with :

pip uninstall openai

Then I upgraded pip with :

pip install --upgrade pip

And i re-installed the openapi package with

pip install openai

And it worked.

Upvotes: 46

Ayaan khan

Reputation: 1

in case you are running the python script as admin (or sudo) it throws the error ImportError: No module named openai. but with out admin (or sudo) it just runs fine

Upvotes: 0

Kristian Heitkamp

Reputation: 769

I was trying to run my openai python script through VS Code on a Mac with python3 installed. When I tried to run my script by pressing the play button supplied by VS Code's Pylance Python extension I kept getting the error message No module named openai.

What helped me was, to install openai with the standard prompt pip install openai and by executing my script through the terminal prompt python3 script.py.

Upvotes: 0

PeterBloomingdale

Reputation: 151

Top answer didn't work for me, but this did:

I am using VS code on a mac. I had to select the correct Python interpreter. I am using Python 3 and pip3 instead of pip.

Uninstall the openai package with :

pip uninstall openai

Upgraded pip with (be sure to use pip3):

pip3 install --upgrade pip

And i re-installed the openapi package with (be sure to use pip3):

pip3 install openai

Upvotes: 6

FAIZAL KHAN F

Reputation: 9

Try putting --user after the snippet.

pip install openai --user

After this, the error doesn't show up & the code works fine for me.

Upvotes: 0

No module named openai

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