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hello, why am i getting this error if I already installed the module: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pymysql'

(testing) 08:05 ~ $ python
Python 3.7.5 (default, Nov 14 2019, 22:26:37) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pymysql
>>> dir(pymysql)
['BINARY', 'Binary', 'Connect', 'Connection', 'DATE', 'DATETIME', 'DBAPISet', 'DataError', 'DatabaseError', 'Date', 'DateFromTicks', 'Error', 'FIELD_TYPE', 'IntegrityError', 'Interfa
ceError', 'InternalError', 'MySQLError', 'NULL', 'NUMBER', 'NotSupportedError', 'OperationalError', 'PY2', 'ProgrammingError', 'ROWID', 'STRING', 'TIME', 'TIMESTAMP', 'Time', 'TimeFr
omTicks', 'Timestamp', 'TimestampFromTicks', 'VERSION', 'VERSION_STRING', 'Warning', '__all__', '__builtins__', '__cached__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__pack
age__', '__path__', '__spec__', '__version__', '_auth', '_compat', 'apilevel', 'charset', 'connect', 'connections', 'constants', 'converters', 'cursors', 'err', 'escape_dict', 'escap
e_sequence', 'escape_string', 'get_client_info', 'install_as_MySQLdb', 'optionfile', 'paramstyle', 'protocol', 'sys', 'thread_safe', 'threadsafety', 'times', 'util', 'version_info']
>>>

I have a custom module that stores my custom functions, and in it I have the import line:

from flask import Flask, request
from werkzeug.utils import secure_filename
import os
import pymysql

When I run this file in the console, I see all imported modules, except pymysql, and that is when I see the error. Moreover, here is the output of the dir():

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/najibfahs/testing/custom_functions.py", line 4, in <module>
import pymysql
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pymysql'
>>> dir()
['Flask', '__annotations__', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__old_modules', '__package__', '__spec__', '_pa_run', 'os', 'request', 'secure_filenam
e', 'sys', 'traceback', 'unicode_literals']
>>>

what is happening???

najibfahs | 8 posts | April 5, 2020, 8:15 a.m. | permalink