“ImportError: No module named boto3” on mac

Question

I am trying a deployment script, which will need to import boto3, when I run the script, it give me error message:

ImportError: No module named boto3

then I ran:

pip install boto3

it returns:

Requirement already satisfied: boto3 in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (1.9.228)
Requirement already satisfied: jmespath<1.0.0,>=0.7.1 in /Users/xiaoyiliu/Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages (from boto3) (0.9.4)
Requirement already satisfied: s3transfer<0.3.0,>=0.2.0 in /Users/xiaoyiliu/Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages (from boto3) (0.2.1)
Requirement already satisfied: botocore<1.13.0,>=1.12.228 in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from boto3) (1.12.228)
Requirement already satisfied: docutils<0.16,>=0.10 in /Users/xiaoyiliu/Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages (from botocore<1.13.0,>=1.12.228->boto3) (0.14)
Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil<3.0.0,>=2.1; python_version >= "2.7" in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from botocore<1.13.0,>=1.12.228->boto3) (2.8.0)
Requirement already satisfied: urllib3<1.26,>=1.20; python_version >= "3.4" in /Users/xiaoyiliu/Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages (from botocore<1.13.0,>=1.12.228->boto3) (1.25.3)
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5 in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (from python-dateutil<3.0.0,>=2.1; python_version >= "2.7"->botocore<1.13.0,>=1.12.228->boto3) (1.12.0)

I ran pip3 install boto3, still it gave the same output as above.

then I ran the deployment script, the same errors with complaining

ImportError: No module named boto3

Any ideas where goes wrong?

I'm using mac 10.14.6 version.

Answer 1

Requirement already satisfied: boto3 in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (1.9.228) Requirement already satisfied: jmespath<1.0.0,>=0.7.1 in /Users/xiaoyiliu/Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages (from boto3) (0.9.4)

Make sure that /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages and /Users/xiaoyiliu/Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages are in the path.

Use the below code to temporarily append it to the path.:

import sys
print(sys.path)
sys.path.append('/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages')
sys.path.append('/Users/xiaoyiliu/Library/Python/3.7/lib/python/site-packages')
print(sys.path)

import boto3