Unable to import tweepy module

Question

I am new to installing new python modules.

I installed tweepy using pip install tweepy. The installation was successful and 2 folders tweepy & tweepy-3.3.0.dist-info are created in the Lib/site-packages, hence I assumed all should be fine.

However, when I went to the IDE and import tweepy. It is unable to detect the module:

>>> import tweepy
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named tweepy

What is wrong?

I am running python 2.7.5.

[Update 1] I am using windows 7.

I first installed pip using another forum's suggestion (How do I install pip on Windows?). basically saving the get-pip.py script and double clicking it (unable to get "python get-pip.py" to work in cmd prompt as suggested). Then, I went to cmd and nagivated to C:/Python27/Scripts and type in pip install tweepy. I remembered seeing the result as a successful installation.

[Update 2] Using a file with import tweepy and running it, I have a similar error.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.2\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py", line 326, in RunScript
    exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
  File "C:\Users\xxxx\Desktop\Script1.py", line 2, in <module>
    from tweepy import Stream
ImportError: No module named tweepy

[Update 3] Typed "pip freeze" in cmd. It does show tweepy=3.3.0

C:\Python27\Scripts>pip freeze 
oauthlib==0.7.2 
requests==2.7.0 
requests-oauthlib==0.5.0 
six==1.9.0 
tweepy==3.3.0 
wheel==0.24.0

[Answer] Thanks for all the help guys, especially Cleb & omri_saadon suggestion that there might be something wrong with the file path.

I just realised that my GIS software, ArcGIS by default installed another Python into the Python27 folder, and everything is taken from that folder, C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.2, instead of C:\Python27. After I install tweepy from C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.2\Scripts, everything works well.

Answer 1

Try to pip uninstall tweepy

and then again pip install tweepy

Make sure you don't have several interpreters on your computer, if you have several, make sure that your pycharm(or any other editor you use) is configured with the same interpreter where you installed tweepy.

Answer 2

If multiple versions of python are installed on the computer, you need to make sure under which version the package has been installed into. I have two versions of python installed on my mac, both python2 and python3 under /usr/local/lib path.

pipinstall tweepy only installs the package into python2.7/site-packages, while VSCode complies python3. Run pip3install tweepy to get the package under python3.7/site-packages so the module can be recognized by the compiler.

Answer 3

If you are using conda enviroments and jupyter notebooks, you could try to install it from the notebook and restart the kernel:

!conda install -c conda-forge tweepy