ImportError: No module named wget

Please help me to find reason on MacOS why when I including library

import wget

I'm getting error

File "/Users/xx/python/import.py", line 4, in <module> import wget ImportError: No module named wget 

This library is installed

xx$ pip3 install wget Requirement already satisfied: wget in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages (3.2) 

I just suppose that some path is not set, but I don't know how to prove this.

Please help me find solution for this problem.

8 Answers

Try pip install wget, maybe you’re using python 2

With pip3 you are installing module for python 3, It can b that you have both versions of python 2 and 3 and you your environment is pointing default to python 2

Check python version or install wget for python 2

python -V pip install wget 

this should not be the case, but check if site-packages is in the path for accessing modules

>>> import sys >>> sys.path [..., '...\\python3.6\\lib\\site-packages', ...] ## if this is here I cannot help you 

if not, try repairing python
you can do that by clicking setup file (one with which you installed in the first place), and among 3 options click repair

sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3-wget 

If you process the python script by command:

python import.py 

or

python3 import.py 

it should work.

But if you process the executable python script by command:

./import.py ENTER 

then incldue as the first line of the script import.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python 

or

#!/usr/bin/env python3 

The following command worked for me in Jupyter Lab

!pip install wget 

Hope this does help!

In Jupyter Lab, although my Python was 3.9 but it was using 3.7 paths (I have multiple Pythons installed):

import sys sys.path ['D:\\Projects', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python37\\python37.zip', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python37\\DLLs', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python37\\lib', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python37', '', 'C:\\Users\\John\\AppData\\Roaming\\Python\\Python37\\site-packages', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\\win32', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\\Pythonwin', 'C:\\Program Files\\Python37\\lib\\site-packages\\IPython\\extensions', 'C:\\Users\\John\\.ipython'] 

So I did !pip3.7 install --user wget, and then it worked.

pip install wget 

if in colab use:

!pip install wget