ImportError: No module named boto3

Question

Installed the boto3 and upgraded it to the latest release. I tried the easy install pip for installation. I have multiple versions of python installed so I even tried installing in virtualenv venv. But I get the same error: "No module named boto3".

pip install boto3

python
Python 2.7.11 (default, Mar 10 2016, 14:12:44)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import boto3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named boto3
>>>

I tried with / without sudo:

sudo pip install boto3

I`m trying to install AWS SDK on Raspberry Pi.

pip freeze

shows "boto3==1.3.0" installed.

sudo pip install boto3

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): boto3 in    /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): botocore>=1.4.1, <1.5.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from boto3)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): jmespath>=0.7.1,<1.0.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from boto3)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): futures>=2.2.0,<4.0.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from boto3)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): python-dateutil>=2.1,<3.0.0 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from botocore>=1.4.1,<1.5.0->boto3)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): docutils>=0.10 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from botocore>=1.4.1,<1.5.0->boto3)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): six>=1.5 in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (from python-dateutil>=2.1,<3.0.0->botocore>=1.4.1,<1.5.0->boto3)
Cleaning up...

Answer 1

sudo pip install boto3 installs it to your global pip. Explained here: Unable to install boto3

You can activate your venv, install boto3 without sudo and start python:

$ source path/to/your/ENV/bin/activate
$ pip install boto3
$ python

Or if you prefer to use your global installation do:

$ deactivate
$ pip install boto3
$ python

Check out the virtualenv user guide: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide.html

Also virtualenvwrapper makes it really easy to manage: https://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html