no module named selenium-ImportError: No module named 'selenium'

Question

I'm trying to write a script to check a website. It's the first time I'm using selenium. I'm trying to run the script on an OSX system. Although I checked in /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages and selenium-2.46.0-py2.7.egg is present when I run the script it keeps telling me that there is no selenium module to import.

This is the log that I get when I run my code:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/Users/GiulioColleluori/Desktop/Class_Checker.py", line 10, in <module>

    from selenium import webdriver

ImportError: No module named 'selenium'

Answer 1

If you have pip installed you can install selenium by executing the following command on the CLI.

pip install selenium

or depending on your permissions you may use:

sudo pip install selenium

pip is a more reliable package installer than easy_install as it was built to improve easy_install.

I would also suggest that when creating new projects you do so in virtual environments, even in a simple Selenium project. You can read more about virtual environments here. In fact, pip is included out of the box with virtualenv(virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments. Since Python 3.3, a subset of it has been integrated into the standard library under the venv module.)

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