Running a python script produces: ImportError: no module named termcolor

Question

I created a new virtual environment:

$ virtualenv --no-site-packages venv --python=python3.2

Then, I activate the virtual environment and install packages:

$ source venv/bin/activate
$ pip install termcolor
$ python -m termcolor

This all works just fine. I then install my own project called Hermes which uses termcolor:

$ python setup.py install

But when I run the executable that's installed to the virtualenv's bin directory, I get an error:

ImportError: no module named termcolor

How do I install termcolor?

Answer 1

The error:

ImportError: no module named termcolor

Means you have not installed termcolor. Here is how you install it for Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install termcolor

The exact command to install it for your linux distribution will depend on the package manager. When you're done with that, put this in a python script to make sure it works:

#!/usr/bin/python
from termcolor import colored
print colored('hello', 'red'), colored('world', 'green')

The script should print hello in red, and world in green. Then you know it is installed.