install csv package in pycharm

Question

I have a problem with installing csv package in pycharm (running under python 3.5.2)

When I try to install it I get an error saying

Executed command: pip install --user csv

Error occurred: Non-zero exit code (1)

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement csv (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for csv

I updated the pip package to version 9.0.1 but still nothing.

When I run the following code:

import csv
f = open('fl.csv')
csv_f = csv.reader(f)
f.close()

I get this error:

csv_f = csv.reader(f) AttributeError: module 'csv' has no attribute 'reader'

I thought it was because I could not install the "csv package"

also I tried running:

import csv
print(dir(csv))

and the print result is:

['doc', 'loader', 'name', 'package', 'path', 'spec']

A lot of methods including csv.reader are missing

This is pretty much all the useful information up until comment #29

Answer 1

for python 3, you should run this command:

pip install python-csv

Answer 2

You can't pip install csv because the csv module is included in the Python installation.

You can directly use :

import csv

in your program

Thanks

Answer 3

1. 'csv' is an in-built package. So you dont have to install it again in Pycharm.
2. When you try to import csv, make sure that you dont have any file(created by you) named as 'csv.py' in your project folder(or Python Path Variable folders) because of this you are not actually importing 'csv' package.