Why can I not import load_dotenv?

Question

I'm trying to code a simple discord bot in python, but it says i cant import load_dotenv, instead giving me this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/Rotomi/Rotomi.py", line 5, in <module>
    from dotenv import load_dotenv
ImportError: cannot import name 'load_dotenv' from 'dotenv' (/home/pi/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/dotenv/__init__.py)

For reference, here is my current code: https://pastebin.com/75qru00R

Answer 1

I don't know if this still needs to be solved, but I found out that this worked for me:

from dotenv import dotenv_values
temp = dotenv_values(".env")
TOKEN = temp["DISCORD_TOKEN"] 

Answer 2

Just ran into the same issue and luckily we got it solved.

The problem is the package itself. So instead of install package dotenv, what you should install is python-dotenv.

pip install python-dotenv

After that, you code shall work