Re: No module named 'playsound'‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏

[Thomas Passin]

I wrote

>> "the most likely reason is that it got installed by a different
>> version of python than the one that used pip to install it."

That's not quite what I meant to say.  Better:

"the most likely reason is that you are trying to import it using a 
different version of python than the one that used pip to install it."


On 1/9/2023 11:59 AM, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 1/9/23 08:30, Thomas Passin wrote:
>> On 1/9/2023 9:40 AM, om om wrote:
>>> I'm installing playsound pip install playsound
>>> but it keeps saying No module named playsound
>>> and this error occurs on other packages
>>
>> Did the installation by pip succeed? if not, what was the error message?
>>
>> "It keeps saying ...". What keeps saying that (it's not a standard 
>> error message from pip)? What is the code or command that causes this 
>> error message?
>>
>> You would get such a message if you tried to import a package but it 
>> had not been installed.  If you used pip to install a package and it 
>> succeeded but you could not import the package (or module), the most 
>> likely reason is that it got installed by a different version of 
>> python than the one that used pip to install it.  You may have several 
>> different versions of Python on your computer.
>>
>> You can check versions by running
>>
>> pip -V
> 
> As described in this reply, but to be more explicit: if a package 
> installed wtihout error, and then you can't import it in Python, it's 
> basically always a path problem.
> 
> Invoking pip the same way as you did to install, do:
> 
> pip show playsound
> 
> This will tell you where it put it. If that's not a place your Python is 
> looking, it won't find it.
> 
>>
>> Then use the command you normally use to run Python (i.e., python3, 
>> py, etc.) and run
>>
>> py_x -m pip -V
>>
>> (don't type "py_x", use the command name you normally use to run python)
>>
>> If the two outputs are different, then you will know for sure that 
>> your packages got installed to a different version of Python.  
>> Re-install them using "python -m pip install" instead of "pip install" 
>> - again, make sure that you use the actual name for the python command 
>> that you normally use.
> 
>