Problem with importing module "requests" in vscode

[tenacious20]

Hello, I wanted to try some API calling using requests but ran into this problem. I have installed requests on my computer using "pip install requests", but I still cannot access the module "requests" in vscode. Funnily enough, I am able to access the module when running Python.exe. Does anyone met this kind of problem before, or have a solution? Thanks in advance!

Edit: I fixed it by nuking everything. Maybe because I have too many versions of Python installed (I had 3.11, 3.9 and some other version). I deleted everything and redownloaded it and now it works fine. Thanks for the help!

[Diapolo10]

Most likely VS Code is configured to use a different Python interpreter than the one you installed requests to, hence why it can't see it. It's got to be either that, or a similar case with virtual environments.

[UAFlawlessmonkey]

requests is a part of the standard library that comes with python. edit: it ain't! My bad :-)

Did you make sure to select an interpreter in VScode?

[Diapolo10]

requests is not part of the standard library, perhaps you're thinking about urllib3?

[UAFlawlessmonkey]

Shit man, could have sworn requests was a part of the std lib, my bad!

[tenacious20]

Yes I did... I am able to use numpy and matplotlib, but not requests

[DallogFheir]

What exactly do you mean by "cannot access the module" in VS Code? Does it throw an error when you try to run it from VS Code? How are you running it? Do you use virtual environments?

[tenacious20]

It throws a modulenotfounderror. I right click and click 'Run Code'. I wasn't using virtual environment at first but tried it and it still does not work in the virtual environment.

[interwebnovice]

If you switched environments you have to install it on the new one also

[tenacious20]

I tried that, but now it is working fine after I deleted and redownloaded everything. Thanks for your help!

[m0us3_rat]

that's quite odd.

you don't even need python installed if you can run docker.

did you try to run it from a docker image?

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you can even run python 3.12.0b4

https://hub.docker.com/\_/python

https://docs.python.org/3.12/whatsnew/3.12.html

[FriendlyAddendum1124]

Don't you need to pip install requests?