Question

I tried to install a module using easy install. It seems to have been installed but I am not able to import it.

# easy_install uuid
Searching for uuid
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/uuid/
Reading http://zesty.ca/python/
Best match: uuid 1.30
Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/u/uuid/uuid-1.30.tar.gz#md5=639b310f1fe6800e4bf8aa1dd9333117
Processing uuid-1.30.tar.gz
Running uuid-1.30/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-mQlxdg/uuid-1.30/egg-dist-tmp-gLpk9N
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
Adding uuid 1.30 to easy-install.pth file

Installed /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/uuid-1.30-py2.6.egg
Processing dependencies for uuid
Finished processing dependencies for uuid


# python
>>> import uuid
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named uuid


# python -V
Python 2.4.3

Answer 1

The easy_install clearly indicates that the module was installed to /usr/lib/python2.6, but you’re running Python 2.4.

Either run Python 2.6 explicitly (e.g. python2.6 or python26), or use python -m easy_install uuid to install the module to your default Python.