Python unable to find Elasticsearch

Question

I am new to python and I am trying to experience with python and elasticsearch.

I installed python by installing homebrew and running:

brew install python

This also installed pip. Then when I had pip I ran:

pip install elasticsearch

This installed elasticsearch. However, When I run the script below:

from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch

es = elasticsearch()

print("hello")

It tells me the following:

File "script.py", line 1, in <module>
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
ImportError: No module named elasticsearch

Can anyone offer any guidance as to what the issue is?

Answer 1

If you've installed through pip, set/export below environment variable--

export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages

For pyCharm, just add PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages; in Environment variables. You can reach to this setting by "Run-> Edit Configuration". Click apply and it should work fine.

Answer 2

You should capitalize the 'elasticsearch()'

Quoting from es-python

# by default we connect to localhost:9200
es = Elasticsearch()