Can't load Python modules installed via pip from site-packages directory

Question

I am trying to install and use the Evernote module (https://github.com/evernote/evernote-sdk-python) . I ran pip install evernote and it says that the installat

Answer 1

I figured it out! I added this line:

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

to my .bash_profile and now I can import modules stored in that directory. Thanks for everyone who answered.

Answer 2

/usr/bin/python is the executable for the python that comes with OS X. /usr/local/lib is a location for user-installed programs only, possibly from Python.org or Homebrew. So you're mixing different Python installs, and changing the python path is only a partial workaround for different packages being installed for different installations.

In order to make sure you use the pip associated with a particular python, you can run python -m pip install <pkg>, or go look at what the pip on your path is, or is symlinked to.

Answer 3

I faced similar problem,its related to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages had no read or write permission for group and other, and they were owned by root. This means that only the root user could access them.

Try this:

$ sudo chmod -R go+rX /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

Answer 4

None of this helped me with my similar problem. Instead, I had to fix the newly installed files permissions to be able to import. This is usually an obvious thing, but not so much when you use sudo when installing module/packages.

Answer 5

Simply just type in terminal:

sudo pip install pillow

and type import (whatever you like) or type from (whatever you like) import (whatever you like).