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Why can't I use a library I just installed with Pip?
I tried installing package-installation-test[1] using Pip, and it appeared to be successful. But I can't use it as advertised, either by itself or by importing it from my code:
Failed attempts
$ pip install package-installation-test
Collecting package-installation-test
Using cached package_installation_test-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (3.1 kB)
Installing collected packages: package-installation-test
Successfully installed package-installation-test-1.0.0
$ demo-example-package
demo-example-package: command not found
$ python -m example_package
/path/to/python: No module named example_package
$ python -q
>>> import example_package
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'example_package'
>>>
Also, demo-example-package doesn't tab-complete in my shell.
According to the documentation, I should get results like this instead:
Expected results
$ demo-example-package
Version 1.0.0 of example_package successfully installed.
The source code is in /path/to/example_package.
$ python -m example_package
Version 1.0.0 of example_package successfully installed.
The source code is in /path/to/example_package.
$ python -q
>>> import example_package # no error
>>> example_package.home()
PosixPath('/path/to/example_package')
Attempting to reinstall doesn't work either:
$ pip install package-installation-test
Requirement already satisfied: package-installation-test in /path/to/site-packages (1.0.0)
What gives?
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Full disclosure: I am the author of this package. I created it specifically to demonstrate the problem for the purpose of a canonical Q&A. Whatever package you're actually trying to install and use, the fundamentally problem is still the same. ↩︎
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