ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Paramiko'

[Mats Wichmann]

On 4/7/24 19:31, Wenyong Wei via Python-list wrote:
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> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> Recently I encounter a problem that I can't import paramiko in my computer. My PC running on window 10 64 bits. I have investigate this issue via internet, there are a lot of solutions for this issue, after trying most of the steps, I still can't run this module, the major steps I have try are:
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>    1.
> Install python ver 3.7.1 or 3.11.8 by itself or customer installation (changing the installation folder) and check add python to the path.
>    2.
> pip install paramiko, if ver 3.7.1 installed, need to upgrade the pip version.
>    3.
> Checking the environment path, there are two path related to the python, one for python.exe, the other for \Lib\site-packages\paramiko
> 
> can you please provide advice on this issue?

Going to be more explicit than the other answers:

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If an attempted import gives you ModuleNotFound, that *always* means the 
package is not installed... not at all, or just not in the paths that 
copy of Python is looking in.
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The problem arises in part because most package installation 
instructions take the simplest approach and just tell you to (for example)

pip install paramiko

So it's installed. But where did it go? You can check where it went:

pip show paramiko

That path ("location") needs to be one where your Python interpreter is 
looking.

If all goes well, "pip" and "python" are perfectly matched, but in the 
current world, there are often several Python interpreters installed 
(projects may require a specific version, an IDE may grab its own 
version, something may create and setup a virtualenv, alternate worlds 
like Conda may set up a Python, the list goes on), and for any given 
installation on Windows, python.exe and the pip excutable pip.exe go in 
different directories anyway, and the Windows PATH doesn't always 
include both, and you easily get mismatches.

As others have said, the way to avoid mismatches is to use pip As A 
Module, specifically a module of the Python you want to use.  So if 
you're using the Python Launcher, that looks like:

py -m pip install paramiko

Hope this helps.