[FIXED] ImportError: No module named requests: But it is installed already

Issue

I am trying to learn web-scraping using Python and installed Requests using

pip3 install requests

and checked again using the same command. I got the following output:

Requirement already satisfied: requests in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages

But when I tried to execute the following code:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

with open('/home/aca/Documents/Python files/test.html') as html_file:
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html_file, 'lxml')
print(soup.prettify())

in Atom v 1.26.1, I received the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/aca/Documents/Python files/experiment.py", line 2, in <module>
    import requests
ImportError: No module named requests
[Finished in 0.167s]

I confirmed the installation of Requests in IDLE by importing it using the Python shell and task completed without ImportError.

I am stuck at this point. Is this an issue of an older version Atom? If yes please suggest a lightweight ide for lubuntu 18.04.

Solution

Try checking your Python versions. It's quite possible that you have Requests installed in one interpreter, while Atom uses another.

Run your script directly in the command line.

Answered By - Michail Highkhan