[split] Windows can't find installed packages

[deep_logic]

Hi all,
I seem to have a similar situation trying to import beautifulsoup4. I've installed beautifulsoup4 using pip in a command prompt. All good. However, I try to use my IDLE and import but, "module not fould" error.
It seems as though I may have 2 installations of python. One install is the one I configured for my environment variables, and I think the other one installed when I installed Visual Studio. So, do I uninstall Visual Studio and hope that the modules will work with my IDLE? Or maybe uninstall both?
OS: WIN10, PYTHON3.7.2 AND 3.7.4
Thanks for any help

[newbieAuggie2019]

Hi all,
I seem to have a similar situation trying to import beautifulsoup4. I've installed beautifulsoup4 using pip in a command prompt. All good. However, I try to use my IDLE and import but, "module not found" error.
It seems as though I may have 2 installations of python. One install is the one I configured for my environment variables, and I think the other one installed when I installed Visual Studio. So, do I uninstall Visual Studio and hope that the modules will work with my IDLE? Or maybe uninstall both?
OS: WIN10, PYTHON3.7.2 AND 3.7.4
Thanks for any help

Hi!

I think python versions 3.7.2 and 3.7.4 are similar, so I would just keep the 3.7.4, but it is my opinion. Then I would install again beautifulsoup4 in it, if it isn't already there. You can afterwards, check with the program I included in point 3) of my post #4 on this thread:

https://python-forum.io/Thread-Windows-c...d-packages

All the best,

[buran]

I've installed beautifulsoup4 using pip in a command prompt.

PYTHON3.7.2 AND 3.7.4

you installed in one python distribution and trying to use it from the other.
To avoid confusion - I would uninstall both python version and make clean install.
And VS Code is preferable, IDLE is poor IDE

[snippsat]

So, do I uninstall Visual Studio and hope that the modules will work with my IDLE? Or maybe uninstall both?

Visual Studio comes with own version of Python,how Windows see Python is trough Environment Variables Path .
Here you can fix so have a main version that work from command line.

Visual Studio is not the same as VS Code which is better option for Python.
Here a couple of links you can look at.
Python 3.7 and pip installation under Windows
VS Code from start

[buran]

I overlooked that it's Visual Studio and not VS Code

[deep_logic]

Ok, I didn't realize that there is yet another version of Visual Studio. So, VS Code is better for python?
Do I need to go to python's site and re-download python? Or do I let VS Code install it's own python?

Thanks for the help.

[snippsat]

So, VS Code is better for python?

Yes is't more geared against Python.

Do I need to go to python's site and re-download python? Or do I let VS Code install it's own python?

VS Code dos not comes with Python,so use one from python.org(use 3.7 for now as there has some pip install problem with 3.8 on Windows).
Look at links i posted all is explain there in details.

You most have python and pip works likes from cmd/cmder

E:\div_code
python -V
Python 3.7.3

E:\div_code
λ pip -V
pip 19.3.1 from c:\python37\lib\site-packages\pip (python 3.7)

When this work install VS Code.

[deep_logic]

So, @buran and @snippsat - thanks for your help.

I have uninstalled all python(s), with a caveat. @buran, you alluded to the environment variable path is different than what is in my cmd line and what is in VS Code.

I reinstalled VS Code with the extensions that @snippsat has suggested. However, I would like to use beautifulsoup to do some webscraping. This is just to teach myself (I'm a bad teacher )

Since VS Code has python installed (in my case not the python in my environment variable path), how do you install more modules and packages? Am I missing something? Does VS Code not allow more modules?

I attached the A)environment variable window B)the version of python I'm using in VS Code. Obviously they aren't matching up.

How do I "point" my python interpreter to the python3.8 that I used for installing beautifulsoup4?


Thanks for your patience and hope I didn't make this too broad of a discussion.

[snippsat]

how do you install more modules and packages? Am I missing something? Does VS Code not allow more modules?

You do it all from command line with pip,do not mix it VS Code before all work from command line.
If you do pip -V from cmd what do get?

How do I "point" my python interpreter to the python3.8 that I used for installing beautifulsoup4?

Look at this again VS Code from start.

Here a screen shot of my VS Code setup,what Python interpreter used is down in left corner(click to see option).

[buran]

Also,, looking at the second image, isn't there also Anaconda installation? there is .conada\envs\ebv\python.exe