Getting Import error after installing packages through conda

Question

I just installed pandas, BeautifulSoup4, Jinja2 alongside conda distribution, but I'm not able to import any of the packages except numpy and others which come pre-installed with conda.

Where am I doing this wrong?

Here is a screenshot of my terminal window, where you can see the ImportError and ModuleNotFoundError in Python 2 and 3 respectively. I didn't try pip because I thought it might make things worse by breaking something.

Solution

You won't be able to import those packages from native installed python/python3 environments (unless you've installed them using pip/pip3). Anaconda uses virtual environments (the default one is called base).

You have to activate base virtual environment and use its python in order to install additional packages using pip/pip3 or import Anaconda's preinstalled packages :

conda activate base
python
>>> import pandas
>>> exit()
conda deactivate

OR

conda activate base
python3
>>> import pandas
>>> exit()
conda deactivate

You can check installed packages inside base virtual environment using :

conda activate base
pip list
pip3 list
conda deactivate

If u have several conda environment (other than base), you can list them using :

conda env list

Finally, you can run your scripts using :

conda activate env_name # env_name is probably base in your case
python script.py
conda deactivate

OR

conda activate env_name
python3 script.py
conda deactivate

Comments

[Melebius]

Please do not post screenshots of the terminal. Paste the text directly to your question and apply code formatting.

[crissal]

If you need global-level packages, just use python(3) -m pip install <packages>

[mystical_starseed]

thanks for the response, but I'm not able to import pandas in (base) env in python3, I just checked, it's working when using python

[pymym213]

you've created a python2 conda environment (done by default), if you want to create a python3 env, run conda create -n mypython3env python=3

[mystical_starseed]

Now, I get it. Thanks

[pymym213]

more details here : salishsea-meopar-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/work_env/…