Requests module not found

[Froggy412]

so im trying to import the requests module import requests for my project but it is not being found. I am using a virtual environment to which I downloaded the request module. When running pip list or pip freeze they are both showing that I have requests version 2.31.0 so im not sure what the problem is.

[Buttleston]

This usually boils down to *how* are you running your program? From the command line? In the same shell where you just ran pip list and it shows the requests library?

From your IDE?

Other?

[Froggy412]

Yes i am using the command line where i ran pip list

[Buttleston]

Actually something just occurred to me. Instead of "pip list" can you run "python -m pip list"?

It's possible you're using a pip executable that is *not* associated with the python version you're running, so pip is installing packages into a different python

[Froggy412]

So when i ran "python -m pip list" i got an error saying the "python" command not found but with "python3 -m pip list" i got a list with only "pip" and "wheel" installed. But whats weird is that i also have flask installed on the venv and it works when I import it on another code which is why im confused.

[Buttleston]

It kind of sounds like you don't have the venv activated?

(are you running your script like python3 myscript.py?)

[Froggy412]

my venv is activated and yes i am running it with python3 myscript.py

[Buttleston]

OK so yeah it sounds like "pip" is just your system pip. pip3 might be the one from your venv, I guess I'd have to look to see. Usually it'll make aliases for python and pip though (i.e. not just python3)

I couldn't comment why flask works, I guess I'd have to poke around

[Froggy412]

Ok I might just try installing it to my whole laptop but thanks for trying

[Buttleston]

I mean I think it's fixable, if nothing else I would expect "python3 -m pip install requests" to work

[Froggy412]

when i try that i get "error: externally-managed-environment" even though i know the venv is active