ImportError: No module named when module is there

Question

I usually run python2 but I am playing with python3. Right now I am confused as to why I am getting this error.

When I run the command ./test_web_events.py

Answer 1

This is most likely because you haven't added /python_lib/qe to your PYTHONPATH.

When you try to import a module, the interpreter will look for it only in a certain number of places, you cannot arbitrarily try to import a module from anywhere.

The most common ways are to have a package installed via pip, to have the module sitting in the same directory as the .py file, or to have added the path to that module to the PYTHONPATH.

See: https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/modules.html#the-module-search-path

It seems like the latter case is most likely what you want to do. This is going to be dependent on your OS, but googling it should be straightforward.