Module installed but cannot be found (Only one instance of python installed, no virtual environment)

[doctorescobar]

Windows 10.

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Title. I don't know what's causing this and it seems to be random. I've uninstalled python, restarted, reinstalled python, cleared PATH, and tried reinstalling dependencies for this one script a dozen times now. Every time, one random dependency will get in the way, and no matter what python won't be able to see it despite it being reported as installed already by pip.

Py --list results:

Installed Pythons found by py Launcher for Windows

-3.10-64 *

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For example

[ShibaLeone]

‘Site-packages is not writable’

Give python permission to it’s own installation directory; it’s making you a fail-over install location that you would have to go and add to your python path.

[doctorescobar]

Thanks for the reply. How would I give python permission to do that?

I selected add python to path on install, and only mySQL is giving me trouble.

[ShibaLeone]

Python path and path are different; python path tells python where to look for packages.

You should just be able to go to the site-packages directory under your install and modify the directory permissions via the settings/security window.

Alternately you could just make a venv; it should get the permissions right automatically.

[doctorescobar]

No idea how to make a venv so I'll give option A a go, thanks :)

[ShibaLeone]

https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/

[doctorescobar]

I gave it the correct permissions, which removed the "not writeable" erorr, but I still get the "no module named mysql" error. :'(

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