Android Market API - Python ImportError: No module named google.protobuf

Question

Based on Python-API the requirements I have configured and installed the protocol buffers (as mentioned in http://worthynote.blogspot.com/2011/05/protobuf-compiler-on-mac.html ) and python 2.7. When I ran the command

python examples.py

and still faced the error:

 File "examples.py", line 3, in <module>
import market_proto
File "/Users/siddharthan64/Downloads/android-market-api-py-master/market_proto.py", line 3, in <module>
from google.protobuf import descriptor
ImportError: No module named google.protobuf       

Any idea whats going wrong here?

Answer 1

Use pip:

sudo pip install protobuf

I had the same problem, which is how I found your question, and this fixed it.

Answer 2

Use conda, if you use anaconda and juypter

conda install -c conda-forge protobuf=3.2.0