Cannot get psycopg2 to work, but installed correctly. Mac OS

Question

I\'m trying to work with psycopg2 natively on Mac. It installs fine, with no errors at least, but when i import it get an error message.

I\'ve seen dozens of threads wit

Answer 1

Thanks guys.

@maxymoo I went with your suggestion. I have installed anaconda2. The install updated my path to include /anaconda/bin.

Then using the navigator I installed pyscopg2. Now I am able to use this in the shebang and my scripts execute fine and i'm able to import this module.

Gurmokhs-MBP:rest Gurmokh$ python
Python 2.7.12 |Anaconda 4.2.0 (x86_64)| (default, Jul  2 2016, 17:43:17) 
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>>> import psycopg2
if psycopg2.connect("dbname='postgres' user='postgres' host='localhost'"):
...     print "connection made"
... 
connection made
>>>