Can not solve ImportError: No module named request

Question

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1) I installed pip and I executed

 pip install requests

and got

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): requests in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests-2.9.1-py2.7.egg
Cleaning up...

2) I started my python2 shell:

>>> from urllib.request import urlopen
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named request

Why I am still catching this exception? What I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

You are confusing the 3rd party module named requests with the Python 3's built-in urllib.request. You can use

import requests

both with Python 2 and 3. However, you can use

from urllib.request import urlopen

only with Python 3.

Answer 2

• urllib.requests module is available in Python 3.x. In Python 2.x, it's urllib module
• You installed the third party library requests, but trying to import standard module.

Why dont you just import requests?

Answer 3

What worked for me was to install python-pip with this command:

sudo apt install python-pip

then I update it with this command

pip install --upgrade pip

Answer 4

you have installed request(s) and you want to import a module from request. It's not the same. The module request exists only on python 3. Python 2 don't have this module.

-> If u want to use urlopen, you don't need to install requests. U muss only use python 3